Literary Terms Vocabulary: Irony Irony A contrast between expectation and reality. It can be: • tragic • profound • funny There are three types or irony: 1. verbal 2. situational 3. dramatic Verbal Irony When we say the opposite of what we mean. e.g.‚ When a mother walks into a room and sees that her children‚ instead of doing their homework‚ are playing video games‚ she gives them a stern look and says "Once you’re done with your very important work there‚ let’s take some time
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’Men are presented as monsters in Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess.’ Discuss. A monster is defined as something which inspires horror and disgust and is shockingly hideous or frightful. The characters of both males in ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’ definitely give the impression of fitting this description‚ as they both commit‚ or at least command the committing of murders. They are also controlling of the women in their lives and crave power over them – in both cases‚ the woman
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1.) Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration to make a point. Look at the first paragraph. What phrase used by the narrator is an example of hyperbole? Write down the full sentence that includes the hyperbolic element. Does this line make you more sympathetic or less toward the narrator/murderer? Why? The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge. It makes me less sympathetic toward him because he is being overly dramatic.
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surveillance and stalking. In the short story lightboxes‚ the author Emma Cleary writes about the consequences of living such an open life. The short story is written in 1. Person narrator‚ and we follow an unnamed man. The point of view makes him a very unreliable narrator. At the beginning the reader easily feels sympathy for the narrator‚ because of the way his and Elsie’s relationship I described.
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throughout his novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’. Not only is the novel an exploration of the effects of disabilities in a conformist society BUT he takes the responder on an expedition into the world of difference via the narrator‚ Christopher. Disability may negatively impact one’s ability to cope with life’s complexities. Individuals that have behavioural differences are often misjudged. Christopher is a unique character who sees the world as orderly and has very low tolerance
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Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 1 The chapter begins with Nick Carraway introducing himself as the narrator. Fitzgerald uses a first-person retrospective narrative‚ therefore we are given Nicks point of view throughout. The chapter begins with Nick remembering his father’s advice that “all people in this world haven’t had the advantages that [he’s] had” this tells the reader that the main theme of the novel is wealth. The use of the word “advantages” suggests that
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novels are overseen by powerful‚ unreliable narrators; in Water’s case‚ a male doctor‚ Faraday and in McEwan’s an upper-class female‚ Briony. In ’Atonement’‚ McEwan’s empowered narrator Briony Tallis‚ uses ‘her powers of all the powerful and dangerous work of the imagination’ to control the novels twists and turns‚ with her ‘desire to have the world just so’. However the author’s approach also creates a network of intimate third person narration‚ allowing his narrator and with her‚ the reader‚ to
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The Last Leaf O. Henry In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called “places.” These “places” make strange angles and curves. One street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints‚ paper‚ and canvas should‚ in traversing this route‚ suddenly meet himself coming back‚ without a cent having been paid on account! So‚ to quaint
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conversation‚” said Barnishel (Barnhisel‚ n.p.). It is at this moment where he realizes that he should have never “joined his religious fervor with his romantic passion for Mangan’s sister” (Barnishel‚n.p.). The last line of the story reveals that the narrator has completely lost his innocence as he realizes that his church and society lied to him about the world: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish
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Plentiful Narrators Many authors use multiple voices to highlight the effect of narrative point of view in their novels. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is ultimately a frame story: a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story (dictionary.com). Frankenstein is just one example in which there are three narrators. The three narrators‚ Robert Walton‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ and Frankenstein’s monster‚ all have similarities and differences in their goals. The themes of isolation‚ ambition‚ power
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