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    The comedy of the Importance of Being Earnest uses spoken language to convey comical actions rather than physical actions. The Importance of Being Ernest is a drama because of its origins as a play‚ but also a contextual comedy as the characters follow the general format of falling in love with each other and ending with the idea of marriage. However‚ the play is also very satirical‚ making light of the aristocratic classes‚ exaggerating the upper-class morals and the frivolity of the characters

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    Phineas is an outgoing‚ charming‚ and adventurous character in the story. On the other hand Gene is the quiet‚ deeply insecure‚ and impulsive narrator of the story. The irony in this whole story is how these two totally different people are best friends in the story. These two characters are opposites‚ but they are drawn together in a tight bond. Gene may have had an obsession with Phineas throughout the story‚ but Phineas

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    Imagineering Irony CASE HIGHLIGHT Organizations have the opportunity to reduce costs‚ increase productivity‚ increase security and compliance‚ and mitigate risk by developing‚ acquiring‚ or partnering for new competencies related to both print and electronic document workflows. The most sophisticated among them can reengineer print and document workflows to align with business goals‚ driving new business models‚ business transformation‚ and better business outcomes. This Buyer Case Study looks

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    Chopin‚ in her short story “The Story of an Hour‚” features effectively implementing imagery‚ irony‚ and a powerful timetable‚ showing the reality of the bonds of marriage. She wants to highlight the importance of personal freedom‚ and the struggle underneath the surface of daily life. Chopin opens her short story by demonstrating the irony of the Mrs. Mallard’s situation by using imagery. Chopin showed the irony through imagery‚ as Mrs. Mallard hit a sensory overload while she wept: she could see “trees

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    much about how Kierkegaard inspires Lear to give such a great importance to irony. Let us now turn at how he concretely conceives the experience of irony. In this regard‚ the rest of Kierkegaard’s journal entry has once again particular relevance. There‚ Kierkegaard asks himself in what did Socrates’ irony really lie. His answer is that Socratic irony does not lie in virtuous talking. Instead‚ ’[…][Socrates] whole existence is and was irony; whereas the entire contemporary population of farm hands and

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    entire story using dramatic irony. Despite Oedipus’s ignorance about who he is‚ Sophocles uses dramatic irony to let the readers know who Oedipus truly is and to hint at what all will take place throughout the entire story. Sophocles uses many different scenes throughout the play that portray dramatic irony. Although‚ the three most important are Oedipus’s curse towards himself‚ Oedipus’s insult to Tiresias‚ and the fortune-teller’s prophecy about Oedipus. The first act of dramatic irony is Oedipus’s

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    There is irony in the title of the play. Trifles would mean things without importance or overlooked‚ even not needed; and yet the wife‚ the kitchen‚ the dead bird are all the most important elements of the drama. The kitchen is where the most important lines take place‚ the wife overlooked takes control‚ and the quilt and the dead bird tell the real story of the Wright home. There is irony in the focus on the activity of her hands "pleating" her apron‚ this is mentioned several times by Lewis Hale

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    Being Single and Being Married When I was twenty years old‚ my mother told me that it was times for me to get married. I replied to my mother whenever I succeed in life and able and anxious to protect our family‚ I am going to think about having a home of their own. Not only I but also people who is living in today’s society‚ tends to being single or married later. However‚ living in every situation has every its own advantages and disadvantages. There are some differences that I know between being

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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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    BEING DIFFERENT‚ BEING UNPOPULAR In the world there are a lot of people‚ but nobody is the same. Every person looks different‚ maybe he has a black skin‚ green hair‚ is blind or deaf‚ but all humans have positive and negative characteristics. In small social groups‚ such as a normal class in school‚ differences are very clearly visible. Some children have better possibilities to study and have a lot of expensive things. If somebody of majority of schoolmates does not wear costly clothes or does

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