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    “Wit‚ Humor and Irony in Pride and Prejudice" Introduction The objective of this paper is to analyze the wit‚ the irony and the humor present in the novel made by Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice‚ written between 1796 and 1797. This novel is basically a love story that deals with the theme of marriage‚ social classes‚ and their differences and prejudices. The heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a 20-year-old girl‚ described as an intelligent and witty person‚ living

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    Irony is a statement or action whose obvious meaning is hidden by a contrary meaning. In both endings of Story of an Hour and Bliss irony is used. In Story of an Hour‚ the characters and the doctor believe that Louise died “of joy that kills.” (p.97). However‚ the readers know that her death was from an unspoken and completely different cause. From the moment Mrs. Mallard had received news that her husband had died‚ she was overjoyed. She began to visualize a new‚ free life. With her husband dead

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    Cloud‚ Dana. "The Irony Bribe and Reality Television: Investment and Detachment in the Bachelor." Critical Studies in Media Communication‚ vol. 27‚ no. 5‚ Dec. 2010‚ pp. 413-437. EBSCOhost Dana Cloud is a professor‚ author‚ and activist. At the University of Syracuse‚ she teaches communication studies. Cloud is most recognized for the phrase “rhetoric of therapy” in her book Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetoric of Therapy. Not only is Cloud an author of several books

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    an Hour” both Guy de Maupassant and Kate Chopin use irony and descriptive narration to portray Mathilde Loisel and Margaret Mallard as female protagonists whose thoughts and actions are at odds with the expectations of society and the norms of 19th century marriage. These stories were written in a time when women were expected to abide by certain rules and standards placed on them by society and marriage. In both stories the authors use irony to show how the oppression they felt because of these

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    the NRA but as the footage is in black and white‚ compared to the rest of the film it seems that Moore has already begun positioning us. This archival footage implies that the NRA is outdated and the inclusion is therefore seen as another form of irony or social satire. A short sequence then plays with Moore narrating‚ showing milkmen‚ farmers doing their everyday rituals‚ children going to school and “the president bombing another country whose name we couldn’t pronounce” This ironic understatement

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    the majority of his readers’ feelings‚ or emotions. He has mastered the art of writing by disciplining himself to use specific words and styles in which he can affect his readers in any way he chooses to make them think or feel. Poe uses suspense‚ irony‚ and symbolism to seize his readers’ attention in almost every single one of his stories. Poe effectively uses these expressions to cause each of his readers to experience a certain emotion or feeling while reading his stories. In Poe’s story “The

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    trying to understand it. By examining Sophocles’ use of irony‚ we can see that Oedipus’s fatal flaw is blindness to his own truth. Sophocles’ makes Oedipus’s intelligence visible to us as he solves the Sphinx riddle but unfortunately‚ Oedipus demonstrates to be book smart but not street smart. It is stated by Teiresias he tells Oedipus "Listen to me. You mock my blindness do you? But I say you‚ with both your eyes‚ are blind‚" (page 13). Irony is illustrated in this quote because Teiresias‚ who is

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    Kate Chopin used dramatic and situational irony to express her theme. Many social changes were taking place throughout the 20th century. In American society‚ women were finally able to choose their own career aside from the traditional housewife role. Kate Chopin used irony as a way to unexpectedly shock her readers and reveal the theme in “The Story of An Hour”. Irony is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happened. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that a character

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    this misdirection by using different types of irony in the short story. For instance‚ Henry uses situational irony. This type of irony occurs when the outcome of an event is the opposite of what the reader may have reasonably expected (Nordquist). Henry also uses verbal irony. According to Nordquist‚ this is the difference between the intended meaning of a statement and the meaning that the words appear to express. Dramatic irony is another type of irony the author uses. This occurs when a character’s

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    Amontillado”‚ written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ he uses dramatic‚ verbal‚ and situational irony throughout his story to create an unreliable narrator. A man who has plenty of knowledge of wine is being led to his death. The speaker of this story is displayed as unreliable because of the three types of irony used but‚ verbal irony is strongly used to make the speaker untrustworthy. One of the many examples that display verbal irony in the story is when Montresor meets Fortunato on the way to the carnival

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