Midterm Notes These are the study notes‚ a mishmash of discussion postings from this and previous classes‚ together with my own thoughts. Note that I jump around a good bit as things pop into my head‚ and there is bound to be some repetition (but that’s a good thing‚ right?). I’ve tried to emphasize important points and to clear up a few misconceptions. I hope you find them helpful. To begin with‚ you should refresh your understanding of the elements of fiction (especially the kinds of characters)
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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and her thought process evolves from feeling “wild abandonment” to feeling free in her “body and soul.” Her acceptance of her circumstance comes to an end when she dies at the sight of seeing him‚ alive‚ walking through the door. Through the use of irony and symbolism the story critiques marriage and draws attention to the repression of women bound to the constructs of it. One of the most vital things to notice in the story is the repetition in how everyone in the story perceives Mrs. Mallard. When
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To start off we are going use verbal irony. In “Home Alone’’ when the criminals are in Kevin’s driveway and the head burglar says “ go check it out.” the other criminal responses by “ What now.” THe head criminal responses with “ No Tomorrow! YES NOW!!” So this shows that the head criminal is being sarcastic. In “Ransom of Red Chief’’ the verbal irony is used on page 74 paragraph 4 it states “ ‘You had better come at night‚ for the neighbors
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September 12‚ 2003 Essay 1 Irony in "The Cask of Amontillado" In the short story‚ "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Poe uses two types of irony‚ dramatic and verbal. Dramatic irony is when the reader perceives something that a character in the story does not. Poe uses this type of irony in the character Fortunato. Verbal irony is when the character says one thing and means something else. This type of irony can be recognized in the statements that the characters‚ Fortunato and
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Talented writers are aware of this concept known as karma. Author Edith Wharton‚ who experienced many complicated relationships‚ wrote many short stories with the subtle use of situational irony (“Roman Fever” 299). In the twentieth century short story “Roman Fever‚” Edith Wharton employs symbolism and irony to ascertain that the most open of friends often realize that they do not know everything about each other. The author of “Roman Fever‚” Edith Wharton‚ depicts two upper class friends who spent
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Crane and Gwendolyn Brooks “Do Not Weep Maiden for War Is Kind” a poem by Stephen Crane is written in a way that reveals how war is an atrocious creature through verbal irony. In “The Sonnet-Ballad” by Gwendolyn brooks‚ she portrays death as a flirtatious lady. Both of these authors do an extraordinary job in using imagery and irony to sketch their thoughts about death and war. Through the use of imagery Brooks characterizes the coquettish death and how her loved one was fooled into betraying Gwendolyn
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by using literary devices such as verbal irony and tone. Nemerov mocks the way children are traditionally taught by using the devices for sarcasm to balance the pretend seriousness he conveys in the poem. For example Nemerov states‚ “The world is full of mostly invisible things… to find them out‚ things like how many times Byron goes into Texas… you have to go to school and study books.” One key literary device used in the poem is verbal irony. Verbal Irony means that the literal meaning of words
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presented during comedy‚ yet comedy is caused by the dramatic irony of the play. This further adds towards the reasoning into why “The importance of being Earnest” is recognisably one of the most noted comedies written. To begin with‚ comedy arises through the conflict between characters. Namely‚ the conflict that lights up between Gwendolen and Cecily is a main source of comedy. This comedy comes through the confusion and dramatic irony of the scene‚ and how naïve the ladies act. The comedy originates
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in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does”. This is very clear in the story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry‚ where he uses irony to bring about a humorous tone in his tale. In the story “The Ransom of Red Chief”‚ the author‚ O. Henry‚ uses situational and verbal forms of irony to make the readers of his work laugh because of the humerous tone. Both situational and verbal irony are used throughout the story to develop a humerous tone. Situational irony is used in many
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