Irony is a strategy writers use to set contrast between what is supposed to be true and what is reality‚ just as in verbal irony‚ an author might say or write one thing and at the same time mean the complete opposite. In the story by Frank R. Stockton "The Lady‚ or the Tiger?" the author used verbal irony to help us realize the absurdity of the king’s idea of judgment and the real intentions and ideas of other characters. Several ironic statements are presented in the story. Sentence fragments such
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In Kiss of The Fur Queen by Tomson Highway and Lightfinder by Aaron Paquette‚ storytelling by elders to a younger generation is shown to be a significant part of Indigenous culture and life. In both these novels storytelling portrays the lack of knowledge the younger generation have of their history‚ and how in some instances it can be an outcome of western influence. In Kiss of the Fur Queen‚ the Okimasis brothers Jeremiah and Gabriel are misinformed of the history of their village‚ and Aisling
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short story as a naturalist visualization of the devastating effects that wars and battles had on the soldiers which fought in them. The short story “Chickamauga” is defined as naturalist literature because of the author’s employment of specific literary techniques which define naturalism‚ such as the way the author gradually darkens the mood of the storyline as it progresses‚ the amount of description and attention paid to grisly and macabre details that shed wars in a whole new light‚ as well as
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Examples of Dramatic Irony from Act I & II | Characters Involved | Sympathy?Antipathy? | Reason your sympathies lean as they do | Evidence- Lines & Explanation of Effect | Act 1 scene 1 | Hamlet‚ Claudius‚ Marcellus‚ Horatio‚ Barnardo | This is where the ghost is first seen by Horatio‚ Marcellus and Barnardo‚ representing that the King’s spirit is still alive as he is not yet at peace. I feel sympathetic for Hamlet as in the next scene everyone is mourning over the King’s death and Hamlet
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Shoman”‚ 2018). Spectators paid a small fee to enter the festivities‚ often screaming with delight while watching ridiculous stunts and acts. On the other hand‚ Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin pictured a different version of the carnival‚ more like that of the Renaissance times (Chan‚ 1). He envisioned a place where literary characters would change roles‚ overtaking their oppressors and escaping a life of repression. Bakhtin claimed carnivalization was the key for any person‚ fictitious or
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describe a Hershey’s kiss is a nearly impossible task. It is like trying to describe the sun setting over the ocean. Mere words cannot capture beauty in its purest form. There are many parts to what makes a Hershey’s kiss as wonderful as it is. There is it’s the foil wrapper and flag‚ the candy itself‚ the taste‚ or the incredible feeling it gives you‚ every part is essential to what makes the heresy’s kiss as spectacular as it is. When you first glimpse upon the Hershey’s kiss‚ the first thing to
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plot‚ structure‚ language‚ etc. The one that I find the most interesting is irony. In the book‚ Literature: Reading Fiction‚ Poetry‚ and Drama‚ DiYanni states‚ “…irony always involves a contrast or discrepancy between one thing and another” (p. 97). Irony can be presented through the language of the work‚ the events that occur or in the point of view of the work (DiYanni‚ 2007‚ p. 97). These different types of irony are subsequently called verbal‚ situational and dramatic. Each of these is demonstrated
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The Kiss by Gustav Klimt are very similar in the symbolic meaning‚ purpose‚ and how it us. Music and art are the two things that are never going to go away. The both of them have more in common than you think‚ from showing the symbolic meaning of it‚ the reason why the artist or musician made this painting or song‚ to how it makes us feel. Songs and paintings show so much emotion and if you look closely these two things show some of the same characteristics. Symbolic meaning for The Kiss is you
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use of rhetorical devices such as symbolism‚ foreshadowing‚ and irony. Also his risky personality that provoked him to write this story as play instead of a novel. Writing a play is exceptionally harder to pull off‚ and Arthur Miller did just that. To have this much success with a piece of literature‚ rhetorical devices are a must‚ and a huge one that
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story between Jim and Della‚ which is transfigured by O.Henry’s unrivalled flowery language‚ academic and belles-letters style‚ and his superb ironical tone. At the end of the story‚ readers will only be able to say “How ironical their life is!” “The irony of life” in “The Gift of the Magi” is presented through a story of love and sacrifice between a young couple‚ Jim and Della‚ who are poor materially but not poor spiritually. They always live happily in a poor living condition. Their happiness is
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