the dimming light of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s life gives way to circumstances that connect two separate ideas in ways least expected. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the morals of people are challenged through the use of flashbacks‚ symbolism‚ and irony in order to depict the dissimilarities of the social classes. As an illustration to the time period of the story‚ Fitzgerald contradicts the American dreams with the reality that happiness is not always earned the honest way. Men and
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Language techniques • repetition of ‘it’- showing impersonal‚ ambigionious • repetition of ’arriving‚ arrived’- uncertainty • Allusion of Veronica Lake • "then I forgot’- short sentence enphate • ’the peach’- is symbolic • irony of double perspective • truth and perspective is limited by our knowledge Sam • This poem is allegory of their life
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“Satire is a sort of glass‚ wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own” (Swift). Jonathan Swift‚ a satirical writer during the eighteenth century‚ made an excellent metaphor revealing that satire is written in such a way that the author exposes only what they want the reader to know. This same metaphor reigns true even today in modern satirical writing within the structure‚ tone‚ and what the writings are used for; dependent upon the point of view‚ I personally choose
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pollution. Somerville has chosen to highlight his message through the use of hyperbole‚ irony‚ stereotype and visual symbols. The cartoonist aims to achieve an emotional response from the audience‚ to make the target feel guilty of their lack of efforts towards World Environment Day. Language features that have been used to convey the message of the cartoon and create an audience response include hyperbole and irony. Somerville has chosen hyperbole to convey his message by exaggerating the amount
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know how to survive. This quote relates to Liam O’ Flaherty’s short story and Thomas Hardy’s poem. In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Man He killed” by Thomas Hardy both literary works show similarities and differences by the use of plot‚ irony‚ and theme. In the two passages‚ there were many similarities‚ but there were also some differences throughout the plot. For example‚ in “The Sniper” the main character was a soldier at war who must kill his enemy to survive.
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Money today seems to be the most important thing in people’s lives‚ examples of this are shown in "Paper" by Catherine Lim; which tells the story of Tay Soon and his wife‚ and their general obsession with owning their own dream house. Another story that helps to prove this point is "The Winner" by Barbara Kimenye which center’s itself around an elderly gentleman named Pius who is forced to deal with the acquisition of a large sum of money. While the two stories contain characters‚ which hold different
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(Pg. 180) But his readers seemed to miss this. To make a full response to them‚ Berry writes “Feminism‚ The Body‚ and the Machine.” Through his use of quotation marks‚ tone‚ and diction‚ Berry defines and defends his marriage. He illustrates the ironies in how we think and live that have turned us from a sense of mutual belonging to one of individual ownership. Quotation marks can be used to imply a different meaning than a word would normally be associated with. “Marriage‚ in what is evidently
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Argumentum ad logicam: arguing that because an argument contains a logical fallacy the argument in its entirety must therefore be discarded. Example: The opposing argument contains an appeal to emotion (pathos)‚ the author criticises the opponent’s use of pathos as though it constitutes the bulk of the argument‚ positioning the reader to feel indignant about being manipulated by the opposition‚ and to feel that they can disregard the opponent’s argument in its entirety since it is evidently based
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Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote this poem "Ozymandias" to express to us that possessions do not mean immortality. He used very strong imagery and irony to get his point across throughout the poem. In drawing these vivid and ironic pictures in our minds‚ Shelley was trying to explain that no one lives forever‚ and nor do their possessions. Shelley expresses this poem’s moral through a vivid and ironic picture. A shattered stone statue with only the legs and head remaining‚ standing in the
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railroad accident. At the breaking of this news Mrs. Mallard is swiftly taken to her room where she goes through a series of emotions that ultimately lead to a shocking revelation. “The Story of an Hour” is a work of literature that presents numerous ironies and emotional conflicts that have resulted in two distinct themes. The first being that sometimes the greatest things we find in life may not always come in the way we expect‚ and the second is to enjoy things while they last. While there are
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