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    indicates the care with which he has planned Fortunato’s death. Both of the men want the same thing. Edgar Poe has a strong way of reproducing great literary elements in the story; the theme of revenge is explained with the use of irony. One irony used in this story is dramatic irony‚ which is when the readers understand it and the characters does not. “You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill‚ and I cannot be responsible. Besides‚ there is Luchesi-” “Enough‚”

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    Dramatic Irony In Hamlet ; act II‚ scene I of the play; Hamlet finds out that his father was murdered by his own brother. Rather than him dying from a snake bit‚ that everyone else knows of. Hamlet had decided to act crazy and tell no one about what his father told him. His father told him that he wasn’t bite by a snake; Hamlets‚ fathers; brother put poison in his ear and killed him.After his fathers’ death‚ Hamlet didn’t know how to control his emotions. Anguished‚ he laments his father’s death

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    Textual Analysis of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 1.) Romantic Description: a. pg. 715 - "there is a little valley‚ or rather lap of land‚ among high hills‚ which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.  A small brook glides through it‚ with just a murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail‚ or tapping of a woodpecker‚ is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquility." Irving describes nature as an untouchable force.  He ignores

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    knowledge to the people who viewed his plays. “Oedipus The King” was written knowing that the audience is aware of the outcome of the play‚ and therefore utilizes that foreknowledge to create various situations in which irony plays a key role. More specifically‚ this dramatic irony is used to highlight the characters’ different flaws. Even though Oedipus was not a bad person‚ his lack of humility blurs his ability to see the truth of the prophecy‚ and eventually leads to his demise. When the town

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    have won awards along with the book that it was made after. Most of the time the books have more details than the movies and are able to create a better plot for the people to follow The Sleepy Hollow is the first of the three books that have a good comparison between the story and the movie. During The Sleepy Hollow one of the main differences is that in the movie the headless horseman is real and in the book‚ the horseman is the town’s imagination. Another difference in the book is that in the movie

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    1.An atmosphere of foreboding and horrors is built up in the act. Much of the horror is implicit in Macbeths dagger soliloquy in scene 1. a)Why does Macbeth refer to the dagger as a fatal vision?Macbeth refers to the dagger as a fatal vision (II.i.36) because it foreshadows his deadly intent to kill King Duncan. Macbeth is obviously under great mental torment‚ which is the cause of his hallucination of the imaginary dagger. He imagines the dagger‚ covered with gouts of blood (II.i.46)‚ leading him

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    has their little secrets Sleepy Hollow is a mysterious horror movie directed by director Tim Burton in 1999. Tim Burton is famous for making dark‚ fantasy and Gothic style movies like Edward Scissorhands and Corpse Bride. In this movie‚ Ichabod is a constable who believes sciences and unorthodox techniques and tries to challenge the old traditional justice system at that time. Later he is sent to investigate a series killer who has killed a lot of people in Sleepy Hollow and the heads all are taken

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    down into his family’s vaults to go try some Amontillado. Then he traps Fortunato in the crypt to kill him. In this short story‚ Poe uses dramatic irony to inform the reader of things the character is unaware of in order to create a suspense. Poe uses dramatic irony in this story to show Montresor’s false concern for Fortunato. One example of dramatic irony in the story is when Montresor expresses concern about Fortunato’s health. As they were walking through the catacombs to the Amontillado

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    Irony in ​ A Doll’s House   Directions​  ­ Work with your group to define the following terms. Use what we have learned in  class but also feel free to look up information in your literature book and/or online.     ** NOTE: ​ You should make a copy of this‚ and EVERYONE in the group should fill it out  individually. For Act II‚ you will work in groups. For Act III‚ you will work individually. The  document will be turned in for a grade at the end of the play‚ and I will assess not only your  group work

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    examples of irony within the short story. It contains three types of irony. They include Dramatic‚ Verbal‚ and Situational Irony. The definition of irony as a whole is language which usually means the opposite for a humorous or emphatic effect. It can be when the reader knows more than the characters‚ a person says something and they really mean the opposite‚ or the story goes another way than intended. All of these in some way or another produce suspense. In the story there were types of irony. For instance

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