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    Choice 1 JIMMY I need detention. I really need detention. See‚ there’s this girl... I know‚ I know‚ it always starts with a girl ... But this girl is special... I mean it this time... Really special. Her name is Harmony... But she goes my Harm. Cute huh? She can harm me any time she wants. And she has too. A couple of times. But I deserved it... Cause I touched her once. I didn’t touch her anywhere bad. Just on the shoulder. And she broke my finger. So I guess we kind of have held hands. I was just

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    The play used set pieces like brick walls‚ a receptionist’s desk‚ and door frame with a curtain in it in order to apply masking to the scene. The brick wall and wooden wall were both flats and the desk and wooden wall were wagons as well. There was also set dressing such as the shelf full of flowers and vases also there were vases on the floor and the brick walls. The wooden walls eventually opened up to show the venus fly trap. There was one soliloquy that Seymour spoke while there was 2

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    Dramatic Monologues: According to M.H. Abrahms‚ dramatic monologue is a poetic form‚ "a lengthy speech by a single person"‚ addressing a silent listener‚ intended to convey his or her inner thoughts and emotions. It can be rewritten in jargonised terms as ’a cross or hybrid of the genres of drama and lyric’. A lyric poem is ‘any fairly short poem‚ consisting of the utterance by a single speaker‚ who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception‚ thought‚ and feeling’. Though

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    Voices of Dramatic Monologues - A Poetry Comparison Nearly all of Rita Dove’s poetry deals with aspects of history. Shakespeare‚ Boccaccio‚ and Dove’s grandparents are topics of her poetry.  Dove puts a light on the small truths of life that have more meaning than the actual historical facts.  In a time when African-American poetry has been criticized for too much introspection‚ Rita Dove has taken an approach to emotion and the person as human. Dove’s poetry is not about being black‚ but

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    device that causes surprise and amusement for the audience also a helper to the author to make their writing more fluid. Types of irony in stories are dramatic‚ situational and verbal. In the short stories “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela‚ “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl‚ there is situational and dramatic irony. The ironies affect the main characters carrying their stories out interestingly. In the short story “The Censors” there is situational

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    “blameless and upright man” (Job 1.8). As the book unfolds‚ God and Satan make a bet to determine whether Job will remain loyal to God when catastrophes unfold. Irony manifests itself as dramatic and situational irony throughout the entire text. Dramatic irony plays a fundamental role throughout the Book of Job. Dramatic irony is the irony that occurs when a situation’s implications are understood by the audience but not by the characters. In the first chapter‚ Satan tells God‚ “Have you not put a fence

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    elements which are‚ having a ‘tragic hero’ who is noble‚ dramatic irony‚ hamartia‚ hubris‚ pathos and a restoration of social order. Dramatic irony is an element used in a tragedy. This element creates situations where the audience knows the characters thoughts‚ personality‚ or events that have occurred to a character before another character does. The author uses this element to instil fear‚ frustration‚ or suspense to the reader. An example of dramatic irony used in the Shakespearean tragedy ‘Othello’

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    alive from the shipwreck and destined to enter voyage of “mere extravagancy”. To an Elizabethan audience‚ this is indeed most intriguing for Shakespeare to disclose another subplot in the second Act. Such an event that occurs gives rise in essence to dramatic effect‚ stuning the audience and fuelling their plight to know what will come again. Furthermore‚ the fact that it is a comedy‚ also know as “What You will’ unveils a deeper meaning. History notes that Twelfth Niight was written in 1601 for pure

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    father’s death‚ but due to his philosophical nature‚ he begins to overthink things and makes things go awry. Due to Hamlet being a play‚ the audience or reader possesses information that the majority of characters are not aware of‚ which is known as dramatic irony. Therefore‚ the audience can notice the minor‚ or even major‚ discrepancies or missed opportunities by the characters portrayed in the “madness” of Hamlet‚ the missed opportunity of killing King Claudius‚ and the untimely death of Ophelia.

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    Self’s perception of other people; whether or not love is a strong enough reason to trust one another. Two excerpts centred on different themes will be analysed. This analysis will bring to light certain dramatic elements and viewpoints of time‚ body and space that Berthold has used to enhance the dramatic meaning of this production. Cosi is set in Melbourne during the early 1970s. The play is about a young university student‚ Lewis (Benjamin Schostakowski) who is asked to direct a play for a mental

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