Irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (Merriam Webster Dictionary) Of the four soldiers wandering behind enemy lines after the Battle of the Bulge‚ Billy Pilgrim is the least soldierly and least likely to survive. He’s the only one who survives. He also survives the incineration of Dresden‚ not bad for an unfit prisoner of war. He is also the lone survivor of an airplane crash. Edgar Derby is tried and executed for plundering
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Irony moving the story forward To keep a reader intrigued and interested in what you are writing is a secret. That secret to success is not much of a secret at all‚ its all about keeping the story consistent and flowing naturally with transitions. You don’t want a long boring ol story making your audience sleep‚ a humours‚ suspenseful‚ full of ironic scenes would be sure to keep a reader on there feet wanting to see what will happen next. Authors use a box full of tools which contain literally
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Authors of short stories use elements of style to make their stories interesting. There are many elements of style used by authors. Irony and theme are often used in short stories. This is clearly shown in O. Henry’s short stories such as: “The Gift of the Magi‚” “The Lickpenny Lover‚” “The Midsummer Knights Dream‚” “The Cop and the Anthem‚” and “Ships.” The short stories of O. Henry use the element of theme to bring about ironic endings. In “The Gift of the Magi” there are elements of theme throughout
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© 2003‚ DOW JONES & COMPANY‚ INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED www.barrons.com MONDAY‚ OCTOBER 13‚ 2003 Coy Story Will Steve Jobs jilt Disney? No matter what happens‚ Pixar stock seems overvalued TINY PIXAR IS THE HOTTEST TICKET in Hollywood. Fresh off the huge success of its latest animated movie‚ "Finding Nemo‚" an emboldened Pixar is bargaining hard over a new film-distribution agreement with its partner‚ Disney‚ while weighing offers from other studios. "Finding Nemo" is the highestgrossing
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Paper #2 Throughout time sitcoms have used satire‚ irony and parody to entertain and get laughs out of its audience. Almost everyone likes certain sitcoms for different reasons‚ but mostly because they enjoy a good laugh. I want to talk about sitcoms and what is hiding behind the satire‚ irony and parodies. Sitcoms are meant to help its audience through social anxieties without fully coming out and saying what it is doing. The word sitcom is actually two words put together which was once called
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Essay Rubric |GRADE: A/A-200--180|GRADE: B+/B/B-179-160|GRADE: C+/C/C-159-140|GRADE: D+/D/D-139-120|GRADE: F119 and less| Introduction/Thesis|Introduction provides background material that leads the reader to a focused thesis that responds to the assignment‚ offers an interpretation of the literary work‚ and unifies the rest of the essay.|Introduction provides background material that connects to a clear thesis that responds to the assignment and offers some interpretation|Some sense of introduction
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Looking into the water she recollects the destruction caused by her in the village during her childhood. She feels the responsibility and decides to go back to Oakland instead of with Raven. In the end she realizes her freedom should help people. The Mistress of Spices is an aesthetically sophisticated‚ metaphysically profound novel as well as adventurous masterpiece‚ among other reasons‚ not because it merely borrows the monomyth’s superficial plot structure‚ but because it likewise incorporates the
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rational means or perhaps enticed by a higher deity. In one specific case‚ it was pre-ordained to her delight. A human granted powers that rivaled a god‚ which could shift the balance of the world‚ all in the palms of one child. Her name is Anya‚ the Mistress of Darkness. Whilst Anya grew up‚ she dared never to sleep without a source of light. She had begged her parents to watch as she fell asleep at night‚ scared of the looming shadows stretched across her room. As she grew older her parents had decided
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used language to convey these between “To His Coy Mistress†by Andrew Marvel and “My Last Duchess†by Robert Browning Both the poems have the theme of love‚ written from a man’s point of view‚ and explores the way men treat woman in relationships. The former does this by a male narrator writing a poem to a female‚ using imagery to entice her. The latter by using a duke‚ explaining the story of what happened to his previous wife whilst looking at her picture. Both
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was not of Egyptian birth. Though she may have not been Egyptian‚ Akhenaten often referred to Nefertiti as ‘the mistress of happiness’. All evidence suggests that their marriage was a happy one and that Akhenaten regarded her as his equal. When the couple moved to Amarna‚ Akhenaten describes her of one of the boundary stelae at as; ‘Fair of face‚ Joyous with the Double Plume‚ Mistress of Happiness‚ Endowed with Favour‚ are hearing whose voice one rejoices‚ Lady of Grace‚ Great of Love‚ whose disposition
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