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    Kate Chopin utilizes irony to portray marriage as a negative and suffocating experience. In the story Louise Mallard is notified that her husband Brently has been killed in a railroad accident. Chopin uses situational irony to show how Louise is not distressed‚ but pleased‚ to hear of her husband’s death. Her realization that she will no longer be bound to another person excites her as seen through Chopin’s utilization of verbal irony. Chopin utilizes situational and verbal irony to describe marriage

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    insecure about himself. The ‘Our interests’ is standing for the ‘interests of capital’ and the parallel phrasing of interests is directly telling the audience that his concerns are capitalist concerns not any others. Priestly also uses dramatic irony to make Mr Birling look foolish in many parts of the play. This is also shown near the beginning of the book on page 6 where Mr Birling says confidently “Germans don’t want war.

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    Belonging essay Belonging can be understood as having a place in the society. Belonging is influenced by social‚ historical‚ cultural and personal experiences‚ which all help to shape our identity. Our choices can lead us to feeling like we belong‚ or there may be barriers preventing us as individuals from making connections to people or groups. Belonging gives us security and ensures us that we belong to place‚ family‚ and culture. While not belonging can lead to insecurities which leads to questioning

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    1. ALLEGORY: - A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. -This word origins in Middle English allegorie‚ from Latin allegoria‚ from Greek allegoria‚ from allegorein to speak figuratively‚ from allos ‘other’ + egorein ‘to speak publicly’. -A short example of this literary device can be the poem ‘Epigram’ by Langston Hughes: Oh‚ God of dust and rainbow‚ help us see That without dust the rainbow would not be. in which

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    Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning Comic irony: irony that is humorous (whereas much irony is not) Dramatic irony: When the audience (or reader) knows a fictional character is making a mistake‚ because the audience has more information than the character. Dramatic irony is used when an incident occurs whose significance the audience understands but the characters do not. Tragic irony: In tragic irony‚ a character’s actions lead to consequences

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    horrible life‚ where he seeks refuge turns out to be a conspiracy of the government. Through the irony and the tone Russel uses in his story‚ he implies that the global population’s majority doesn’t realize where technological development leads them and deteriorates their personal skills. The details that Russell uses to describe the exaggerated aspects included in a fictional society convey the satirical irony in our era. Ironically‚ Bob Crane ignores all advertisement around him. “As his feet touched

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    Irony‚ satire‚ parody‚ humor and epigrams are deeply connected by having one main thing in common: they are usually meant to hurt the intellectual self of someone. We use it in our everyday’s life to make fun of people‚ or simply because someone is annoying and we would like them to stop‚ without being “too” rude. Irony can be defined as a statement different from what appears to be true. It is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens (Meyer‚ 286-287). In a lot

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    I believe the central idea of “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton is how present the past really is people judge you by your past‚ your life is determined by your past‚ and you are everything your past made you out to be. Her themes of choice‚ irony‚ destructive passions and the past is always present in the lives we lead today are clearly presented within her writing and made evident thru the storyline she uses. In “Roman Fever” two women who were friends since childhood now have hidden resentment

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    between two lovers‚ but in this scene Shakespeare has managed to change that by introducing a love tragedy theme in the scene. Act 3 Scene 5 is a significant scene because it’s one of the vital parts of the play‚ that’s built with a variety of dramatic irony. At the start of the scene‚ love & concern of Lord Capulet for his daughter is obvious. This is seen in the beauty of the language in his first speech: the alliteration of “doth drizzle dew” and the striking metaphor of Juliet’s body being a bark

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    Charlie Stowe and his father. Also because without it we would never come to assume that Charlie Stowe’s father is in fact a spy‚ who is being arrested for spying for the Germans or the ’Huns’ as his wife calls them. This creates the effect of dramatic irony as Charlie‚ who has observed exactly what we see‚ does not relise why his father has been taken away by two strangers in ’belted mackintoshes’. How Does Greene Establish The Similarity between Charlie Stowe And His Father? Greene establishes

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