"Taming of the shrew comedic figures of speech including hyperbole irony and puns" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 38 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The Irony of the Jungle

    • 1525 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The Irony of The Jungle Between 1870 and 1900 Chicago grew from a population of 299‚000 to almost 1.7 million‚ the fastest-growing city ever at the time. This surge in population was largely attributed to immigrants coming from European countries seeking a chance for employment and new freedoms associated with moving to the United States at the time. 1905‚ in particular‚ was a historic year when a surge of over 1 million immigrants came to the city. During this time‚ author Upton Sinclair

    Premium Upton Sinclair Socialist Party USA The Jungle

    • 1525 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Major Comedic Elements of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Like most comedies‚ Shakespeare’s comedies also aimed to entertain the audience and to conclude with a somewhat happy ending. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is no exception to that rule. Also like most of his comedies‚ the main theme of this play is marriage or the celebration of a marriage. Although marriage is the main theme of this play‚ Shakespeare conveys many other themes though the lyrical expressions of the work. These

    Premium A Midsummer Night's Dream

    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Barbara Kingsolver uses hyperbole to demonstrate the realities of life. Taylor is looking for a job and happens to see a HELP WANTED sign at a restaurant. She asks a lady about how the pay is and how it is like working their. As Taylor mentions the baby she is left with‚ the lady said she knows a place where the babies can be watched because she had a kid of her own. “I had thought Pittman was the only place on earth where people started having babies before they learned their multiplication tables”

    Premium Pregnancy Family Mother

    • 311 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    words‚ which participated in the creation of metaphors‚ metonymies‚ puns‚ zeugmas‚ etc. Each of the SDs added expressiveness and originality to the nomination of the object. Evaluation of the named concept was often present too‚ but it was an optional characteristic‚ not inherent in any of these SDs. Their subjectivity relies on the new and fresh look at the object mentioned‚ which shows the latter from a new and unexpected side. In irony‚ which is our next item of consideration‚ subjectivity lies in

    Premium Word

    • 564 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Irony In The Wizard Of Oz

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages

    her henchmen with the help of her silver whistle and golden cap‚ the Tin Man receives a new ax made of gold and silver and new oil. The pretext of Oz‚ to describe the Great Wizard of Oz‚ is a pun for ounces of gold and silver. Green‚ in compilation with gold is repeated in the story‚ sprinkled with the irony that paper money is green. The Greenback Party‚ a forerunner of the Populist movement‚ urged the expansion of the money and circulation of “greenback” money. At the end of the story‚ the Scarecrow

    Premium The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz Land of Oz

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    "momentous rape" with "large consequences for the future‚" (Perrine 147) Yeats uses rhetorical figures in each of the sonnet ’s three stanzas. The figures in the first stanza create tension and portray the event. All definitions for the rhetorical figures mentioned in this essay are derived from Lanham ’s A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. Yeats opens with an example of brachylogia‚ brevity of speech. His elliptical fragment‚ "A sudden blow‚" recreates the stunning impact and tension of the assault

    Premium William Butler Yeats Ezra Pound Poetry

    • 1403 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Fate is full of irony‚ what you dish out will come back to you. This slogan has never rung truer than in the ironic tale of the Cask Of Amontillado. Presumably taking place in the Italian countryside this story follows the protagonist‚ Montresor‚ in his quest to reap revenge on the antagonist‚ Fortunato‚ for an insult in the past. Ultimately culminating in Fortunato being buried alive this story is a textbook example of revenge. Edgar Allen Poe’s dark tale revolves around themes of betrayal‚ pride

    Premium The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart

    • 1231 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The soldier establishes credibility through the troubles they experienced while active in the military and conveys a message through frustration and sarcasm. The Soldier uses hyperbole to create an emotional appeal‚ in order to show the hardships US soldiers face while active. In lines 11-12 the soldier employs a hyperbole that his privacy could be compared

    Premium Emotion Army World War II

    • 419 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Irony In 'The Lottery'

    • 361 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The title‚ “The Lottery” is ironic for this story because during a lottery a person usually wins a prize. Wining a lottery is normally considered positive. When someone wins a lottery‚ that person is thrilled and extremely happy. Although in the story wining the lottery is not a positive thing because the person that wins the lottery would face a painful death. The only thing that the winner of the lottery would get is pain and grief‚ as the villagers would hit her with stones. The description in

    Premium Short story The Lottery Shirley Jackson

    • 361 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Math in Figure Skating

    • 1636 Words
    • 7 Pages

    MATH AND FIGURE SKATING Alexis Dillon I. Introduction This paper will be discussing the involvement of math in figure skating. There are three parts of skating that will be discussed in the essay; jumps and moves in the field. Jumps require a lot of power‚ strength and knee bend in order for the jump to be successful. I will be looking at the appropriate angle of knee bend a skater needs to successfully land a jump. Moves in the field are series of test that include certain turns

    Premium

    • 1636 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
Page 1 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 50