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    Blood Brothers Theatre Review Word Count:1‚282 Cast: Mrs Johnstone – Vivienne Carlyle Narrator- Phillip Stewart Eddie- Paul Christopher Mickey- Mark Rice-Oxley Mrs Lyons- Abigail Jaye Linda- Louise Clayton Sammy- Michael Southern Donna Marie- Kevin Pallister We visited the Phoenix Theatre on the fourth of October and when we the play started I was drawn to the actual setting of the stage; firstly contrast in the set and how it represented the two side’s class divide. Mrs Johnstone’s

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    Analyze two newspaper articles with respect to the tools of linguistics. This work includes two newspaper articles. Article one is called “Pakistan’s alternative tourism industry” by Shyema Sajjad (Pakistani perspective) and article two is named as “CIA Contractor Raymond Davis is Free—Now Is the Time to Reconsider Our Support for Pakistan’s Government” by Christian Whiton (American perspective). Firstly‚ this assignment will work at two levels of analyzing article discourse. The first level includes

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    Oedipus the King

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    his own mother. Afraid of this‚ he sets off to another city‚ where his real parents live and unknowingly he completes his prophecy. Sophocles used irony throughout the play‚ Oedipus The King‚ which impacted the drama experience greatly for the audience. The words of the priest‚ Jocasta and Oedipus were filled with dramatic irony. This use of irony is clearly shown in the words and actions of the priest. The priest tries to reason Oedipus to take account of the city’s situation. To see through

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    Haemon 10. Ismene 11. Niobe 12. Ares 13. Aphrodite 14. Menoikeues 15. The Sentry 16. Eurydice Lit terms and Persuasion: 1. Dynamic character 2. Static character 3. Symbolism 4. Imagery 5. Prosody 6. Archetype 7. Motif 8. Situational irony 9. Verbal irony 10. Dramatic irony 11. Tone 12. Mood 13. Foil 14. Claim 15. Grounds 16. Warrant 17. Counter-argument 18. Bias 19. Logical fallacy 20. Logos 21. Pathos 22. Ethos Other Vocabulary you might see on the final: 1. Precedence 2. Pathetic 3. Pity 4. Morbid

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    In her poem the Prologue‚ Anne Bradstreet sharply criticizes the male world for its unjust prejudice and hostility against the female world and female creativity. In order to criticize the male world‚ Anne Bradstreet uses such literary devices as irony and sarcasm. The tone of Anne is ironic throughout the poem. Her approach seems to be very polite but behind this polite attitude there lies a biting as well as pointed attack towards the male world. She uses many understatements which are also the

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    audience is carried by the dramatic which suggests he is almost god. CONCLUSION: We see the power shift in Act I as the action progress through the super knowing power of the Inspector. His extraordinary knowledge of the events produces a Dramatic Irony that pulls the audience in; they know‚ he knows! He is in total control of the pace and the tension as he questions one character at a time and finishes off the act with the chilling‚ ‘Well.’ The Inspector is mysterious and seems to know what

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    Wilfred Owen Speech

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    Wilfred Owen Have you ever thought about what it would feel like to be a soldier in World War 1? Well Wilfred Owen was a soldier; his poems explored the hardship of government exploitation and the horrific treatment the soldiers had to go through. The two poems Parable of the old man and the young and Anthem for doomed youth‚ talks about how war has a negative impact on our humanity. In the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’‚ Owen conveys the futility of conflict on a bigger range. He was writing

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    imagery‚ simile and metaphor although it is good to note that the free structure keeps the focus on the images and ideas. Atwood’s ironic/sarcastic/humourous tone is also an effective device for conveying her ideas) - Atwood’s poem is rich with irony (humour) and linguistic inventiveness/ fun with words. It is written in her trademark free verse style‚ with little structure or formality. - Her “us” is not a strong blank narrator because her situations are specific experiences and not general

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    degree‚ that the image of others is completely opposite of how it is in reality. This is what each character in Higson’s short story The Red Line experiences. Higson questions and plays with the role identity have in our postmodern society by using irony in the characterization and by the use of a dynamic point of view. Berto and the nameless man each have contradictory personalities and looks. This is seen because the reader and the characters are introduced to different sides of the people in

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    Theme of Duplicity in

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    of attention. One clue to the real meaning of James’s stories is the irony employed. Most of James’s narrators are unrealiable in the sense that they are deceptive. Their unreliability is either a result of their blindness or unawareness of their situation and environment‚ or an egotistical engagement in their own affairs so as to distort reality. The unreliable narrator misleads the reader. The Jamesian irony clarifies the story‚ brings out the real meaning beneath the apparent and reveals

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