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    short story called‚ “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe used verbal irony to foreshadow the grim demise of Fortunato in the story of the Cask of Amontillado. Throughout the story‚ Poe used a lot of verbal irony to foreshadow the death of Fortunato. An example of verbal irony is when Montressor replies to Fortunato during a toast‚ “And I to your [Fortunato] long life” (99). This is verbal irony since Montessor knows that Fortunato will not have a long life for long and that he

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    The irony within situations and statements dominates a story’s plot‚ contributing to both the rising and the falling action‚ which William Golding accentuates in Lord of the Flies. When a group of young boys crash their plane on an island‚ they perceive the situation as an adventure‚ but they soon realize the danger in the unpropitious circumstances at hand. Through the situational and verbal irony that arises‚ Golding delineates how people can hypocritically adapt to having characteristics they

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    Something we want to avoid is something I call “verbal flinching”. Verbal flinching is saying the first thing that comes to your mind when faced with some verbal resistance from the client. This verbal flinching may make us feel better about ourselves‚ but does not help our verbal de-escalation attempts. So‚ when dealing with an emotionally charged person we really need to choose our words carefully. Everyone has a natural “flinching” mechanism. For example if you were getting ready to hit something

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    Pauline Faivre Ec‚ Spring session Teacher : Philip Lindholm 21th April 2013 the cleverness of words Verbal Irony in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” The protagonist of “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ Montresor‚ appears to be friendly and trustworthy although he actually manipulates Fortunato in an extremely clever way in order to take revenge on him.Thus‚ Montresor’s technique consists in hiding his real intentions using the ambiguous and manipulative power of rhetoric‚ by telling

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne use verbal irony to elaborate the text. Both short stories explain the verbal type of irony. Verbal irony is a situation in which a character says the opposite of what he or she means. Verbal irony is not always shown in the text directly. The reader most of the time has to continue reading until the end of the passage‚ to actually see if it was verbal irony instead of a different type of irony. In “Young Goodman Brown”‚ examples of verbal irony are the names of the characters

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    Irony in the storyteller the main type of irony that we can find in this story is situational irony. The bachelor being good at story telling is ironic because we wouldn’t expect a bachelor to be good at entertaining children. The bachelors description of the little girl being “horribly good” is ironic The little girl in the story that the bachelor told was well behaved‚ and usually the characters that show a positive behaviour in childrens’ stories don’t end up being eaten by wolves. The way that

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    Irony in Antigone: King Creon In the tragedy Antigone‚ Sophocles pens a tale about a stalwart and distrustful king‚ Creon‚ and his misuse of the power he possesses. In the play he disregards the law of the gods to fit his whims‚ something that the heroine of the play‚ Antigone‚ wholeheartedly disagrees with; she disobeys his order to leave her dead brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied and sentences herself to death in the process. Antigone is engaged to Creon’s son‚ Haemon‚ who does not agree with his father’s

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    Verbal Learning Paper Kay Brown PSYCH/550 Psychology of Learning January 31‚ 2012 Dr. Nyiema Carter Verbal Learning There are several types of learning styles every individual has his or her own learning style. Learning style is the way in which each learner begins to concentrate on‚ process‚ absorb‚ and retain new and difficult information (Bjork‚ McDaniel‚ Pashler‚ & Rohrer‚ 2008). Dr. Hermann Ebbinghaus was one of the found father’s on the study of memory and learning in

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    Verbal‚ situational and dramatic‚ three types of irony‚ are commonly used by authors in their literary works to grab the attention of the readers. Verbal irony refers to when a character says something contradictory to what he means‚ situational irony is when the audience believes something will happen but a different scenario occurs‚ and dramatic irony is when the audience knows what is happening but the characters do not. In the short story “The Mark of the Beast‚” the author‚ Rudyard Kipling‚

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    though they cannot be with each other and that did not stop them they still loved and cherish each other. Shakespeare in the story uses a lot of irony to show that you should do anything for true love. Shakespeare’s play is full of all three different types of irony in Romeo & Juliet: dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal. For example‚ he demonstrates dramatic irony‚ Mercutio and Benvolio thinks Romeo is still in love with Rosaline but the audience

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