Irony is an event in a story that the reader doesn’t expect and is surprising. Irony gives a story the extra power that will make it more interesting. The irony in a story will be when the events take a turn‚ and a reader’s jaw drops with astonishment. This literary element give a story the ending that it needs in order to be remembered. Irony comes in many forms‚ and some are more surprising than others. In the short stories‚ “The Censors”‚ written by Luisa Valenzuela and “The Gift of the Magi”
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McCarthyism trials. Miller’s extensive [use of] irony in the crucible reveals the actual motives behind events carried out during the Salem witch trials‚ and thereby he exposes the dark truth of what happened during 1950’s McCarthyism trials on Unamerican activities. Even in the very beginning Miller wastes no time in describing the abject of his play. Some circumstances surrounding the ritual committed by the girls are near perfect representations of dramatic irony‚ that bring to light innocent people accused
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INTEGRATION OF POINT OF SALE TERMINALS WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THROUGH WEB SERVICES ERIK-JAN MONSHOUWER‚ RAUL VALVERDE University of Liverpool Concordia University ABSTRACT With the conventional POS payment transaction method‚ vendors are bound to a payment institute in their region and can only use relatively expensive dedicated or slow dial-up lines to their financial institute. This paper report covers the work to produce an architecture and a prototype that supports Point of Sales
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Irony In the Necklace and Silas Marner there is a common element‚ irony. Yet‚ two different tales are being told. In the book Silas Marner‚ the main character is accused of theft in the very beginning. In The Necklace‚ Mathilde Loisel borrowed a necklace and lost it after her one and only night of fame. A common thing was lost in both stories‚ their pride. Irony occurs in Silas Marner when Silas gets stolen from‚ when earlier in the book he was accused of stealing. Not only that‚
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Reorder Point As a result to today’s uncertain economy‚ companies are searching for alternative ways to stay competitive. One wrong move of a company in doing their forecasting and inefficient inventory control‚ can lead to multiple product stock outs and back orders. This issue has caused sales loss as well as profit loss‚ which companies cannot afford to lose if they want to stay competitive. To resolve this issue‚ the companies are using inventory control model which is the ROP also known as
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In the story‚ Lamb to The Slaughter Mary Maloney and Patrick Maloney are husband and wife. The use of irony gives the story a humorous ending and can really make you want to continue reading. At first‚ Mary was nice and loving to her husband‚ until he breaks the news to her of his “affairs”. Situational irony is being used in this story. Patrick‚ knowing how jaunty Mary is‚ he would never aspire of her killing him in an act of jealousy.. “Darling‚ shall I get your slippers?”(2) As one can tell‚ Mary
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Eoin Colfer took that opportunity with flying colors. Throughout the story‚ we saw multiple uses of dramatic irony. To readers‚ it seemed like Artemis Fowl is always one step ahead of The People. The use of dramatic irony gave readers a sense of what to expect next from him. However‚ because it would usually be only one storyline coming up with future actions‚ this technique made readers start to predict what was
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The Poems ‘Out‚ Out’ by Robert Frost and ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen both contain many similarities and differences. Both poems tackle the issue of death and how precious life is‚ although they are from very different perspectives. Disabled has a much more personal approach to the subject as the story is told from a third person looking over the mans life‚ as opposed to in ’Out‚ Out’ where the narrator is detached from the characters‚ being an outsider. ’Out‚ Out’ tells of the events surrounding the
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the high waves that are menacing their existence (paragraph 9). At about paragraph 49‚ however‚ the speaker shifts his concentration primarily to the correspondent‚ while he describes the other men more dramatically. Might we assume that at this point‚ Crane is merging the speaker of the story with his own voice‚ as nearly as we can determine it? Throughout‚ the speaker introduces some of his own ideas‚ and also‚ at times‚ speaks ironically. This accounts for some of the more humorous expressions
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following. (3 points) a.COOH temp b.COH temp c.COH temp 2.List whether each of the following substances was positive or negative for reducing sugar‚ as indicated by the Benedict’s test. (6 points) a.corn syrup (1 point) b.table sugar (1 point) c.unknown 1 (1 point) d.unknown 2 (1 point) e.unknown 3 (1 point) f.unknown 4 (1 point) 3.List whether each of the following substances was positive or negative for starch‚ as indicated by using iodine. (7 points) a.onion juice (1 point) b.water
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