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    Passage-based essay 2. The moment in which Elizabeth tells a lie in order to save her husband’s life‚ indicates dramatic irony. The playwright makes this happen when first John Proctor calls Abigail’s a whore and‚ in spite of the humiliation he felt‚ revealed his affair with her. As Danforth cannot believe the seventeen year-old girl is actually a “whore”‚ he asks Goody Proctor to come up to test the truth of this charge. Before she enters the court‚ John swears Elizabeth is an extremely honest

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    Irony in Kate Chopin

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    ENGL 1302-021 2 March 2014 Irony in Kate Chopin’s "The Storm" and "Désirée’s Baby" Kate Chopin’s stories characteristically end or contain an ironic twist. Chopin uses irony to create excitement and suspense and to also provide a deeper meaning to her story. Irony can create different parallels to a story that would otherwise be one dimensional. Kate Chopin uses irony in "The Storm" and "Désirée’s Baby" effectively creating beautiful and complex stories. "The Storm" contains both dramatic

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    The most valuable gift

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    The most valuable gift It only takes a few seconds to realize how under-appreciated the gift of life really is. I can still remember the exact moment in which I began to understand that life is the most valuable gift that I have ever been given. Never again since that moment have I forgotten how quickly that gift can be taken away. A few seconds earlier or later‚ a few inches left or right‚ or maybe just a little less luck could have changed what turned out to be a life-altering experience into

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    Dramatic Irony in Hamlet

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    Dramatic Irony is Hamlet What is Dramatic Irony? -Dramatic Irony is when the words and actions of the characters in a work of literature are known to the audience or reader‚ but they are not known to certain characters in the story. The reader or audience has a greater knowledge of many of the characters themselves. -Shakespeare employs dramatic irony in many of his tragedies‚ so that the audience is engaged‚ and so they are able to witness characters errors in their action‚ predict the fate

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    The Splendor of Nature’s Gift ANGELA MAE S. BARANDINO In its primeval residency existing way back in the 9th century‚ the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park otherwise known as Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR) has left a stupendous milestone creating a mark and becoming one of the most riveting sunspots known worldwide. This so called Underground River which may well be located in the Saint Paul Mountain Range on the Northern Coast of the Isles of Palawan‚ has gained incessant

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    Themes In The Simple Gift

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    Belonging to others and place shapes our position in society through relationship and place * * alienation from place (the school) leads to a negative sense of self – shown through down cast heads etc * * Idea in text In ‘The Simple Gift’ and sense of belonging for Billy and Caitlin is found through their relationship (1st person narrative we learn of the significance of their belonging) Caitlin finds acceptance which she didn’t have with her family while Billy finds friendship (Old

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    4 Kinds of Love

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    The (4) Kinds of Love: Agape‚ Eros‚ Storage‚ Phileo Crystal Sykes CDG218: Visual Literacy in Business Ashish Godbole November 29‚ 2010 Love is an emotion that we all desire to have and to hold. Love unlocks the door to happiness‚ completeness‚ and fulfillment. Love suffers long. Love opens hearts wide to receive love; in return love can be given. Love is not puffed up. Love is kind and gentle. Love is not envious. Love does not behave unruly. Love does not rejoice in calamity. Love rejoices

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    the “Cask of Amontillado‚” Edgar Allen Poe uses irony in setting to foreshadow the downfall of Fortunato. Poe uses the term cask in the title‚ but little do the readers know cask has a completely different meaning. Throughout the story‚ verbal irony is shown when Montresor uses different words and phrases that have other implications. Even Fortunato’s name and attire foreshadowed his untimely death. Looking at the title of this story Poe’s irony starts from the beginning. The word Cask is the

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    great suspense and irony that Shirley Jackson tells the story of a lottery in a small town. The result of the lottery is also left open to be interpreted by the reader. All this could not be done without the use of the third person objective point of view in which the story ‚“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ is told. Shirley Jackson uses situational irony as well as verbal irony to keep the readers on their toes and especially to keep the ending a surprise. Achieving this irony would be very difficult

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    The Simple Gift Analysis

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    concept of an individual being accepted unconditionally. A person’s identity is represented by what they pride themselves in. This is shown through the text‚ ‘The Simple Gift‚’ by Steven Herrick as Billy does not pride himself from where he belongs but from his identity. Billy yearns to be accepted for who he is. In ‘The Simple Gift‚’ Billy runs away from his abusive father and seeks a sense of belonging in the town of Bendarat. In the town Billy lives in an abandoned freight cart which suggests that

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