Irony

The sitcom genre is a familiar genre that majority are familiar with and is a growing genre in the media industry. Sitcoms generate millions of dollars every year with new popular TV sitcoms coming out every year along with the traditional sitcoms producing new seasons. The conventions of a sitcom separate this genre from others, like limited locations, stereo typical characters and circular narrative. The sitcom producers modified these conventions as the genre has grown and gained more ratings…

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”-Erma Bombeck. Inside every art form, there’s artists that display the true essence of their particular craft much differently than the others. Within Comedy, you have different types of comedians with the same goal in mind in which is to make every one laugh. Improvisational comedy is the hardest to do because unlike prop and solo comedians, improvisational comedians has no time to rehearse or to test…

John Pielmeier was a guest speaker that came to PSUA on Tuesday, September 12th. John is an Altoona native; he graduated from Catholic University with a degree in theater. John’s dream was always to become an actor, but his life took a different path. Meanwhile, after he graduated he went on to grad school at PSU and earned his MFA. Before earning his MFA he left early to produce, direct, and act in his play. He eventually moved to New York and began his writing career. From here on, John was a…

Candide is a satire. Satire is a mixture of different and unevenly matched styles in the verse ( Mikics, p270). The satirist became more pitiless and ferocious over time (Mikics, p271). Satire will depend on bizarre images of humiliation, ridicule, and physical violence (Mikics, p271). In the novel Candide, the character is naïve and travels around the world to have experiences to prove to the reader that evil does actually exist. Voltaire is the author of the novel, and he satirizes points in…

O'Connor (1925-1964) is called as one of the representative writer of "Southern Renaissance". Its main source of creativity from religion and the church. Her description of the main themes of evil, sin and salvation. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is one of the most respected O'Connor short story writer through a family trip to show us a path of soul salvation, the salvation of the soul essence but a fiction journey. O'Connor said: "A good novelist is through symbols and metaphors to convey…

Dublin. The narrator in this story takes part in an intensely violent sniper battle between him, another sniper, and even a machine gunner. In the passage he ends up doing something he will later on regret because of his own actions. O'Flaherty uses irony and word choice in the story to emphasize the theme that violence hurts everyone involved. Violence is evident throughout the short story and affects all the characters. The sniper's job is to kill, therefore, in order for him to do that people…

look the same as everybody else's clothes, except the price is jacked up. Having the newest iPhone, car, laptop, e.c.t may make people think you have a fancy lifestyle, but they don't even notice. In "The Necklace" Guy de Maupassant uses setting, irony and character to express this theme. In 19th century Paris, France, everybody wanted to look glamorous and sophisticated, just like Madame Loisel did. This period was known as the "Belle Epoque" time period, or "The Grand Years." Fashion and…

ironic. There are three types of irony, the three types of irony are verbal, situational, and dramatic. This poem expresses many examples of situational irony. Situational irony is when the reader expects something to happen but something totally different happens. “Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected” (Dictionary.com). The first example of situational irony that stands out to me…

In this chapter, there is a strong theme of irony in which Joyce uses to portray Gerty MacDowell. The irony in Gerty MacDowell is that she is portrayed as an innocent girl whose “curiosity [was] like a nun…or a girl with glasses [that had] the cry of a young girl’s love” (Ep. 13. 776-7; 735), who also desired to know if Bloom “was a married man or a widower who had lost his wife…[in] some tragedy (Ep. 13. 657).” Joyce used the words “like a nun” to represent Gerty’s purity; therefore, she is…

this short story when Brently Mallard walks through the front door untouched and unaware of any railroad disaster. In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin uses diction through Mrs. Mallard’s emotional changes to show how the significance of dramatic irony portrays throughout Mrs. Mallard’s emotional changes. In the short story, the author uses the phrase “sudden wild abandonment” to give the reader an insight of how Mrs. Mallard first feels after she receives the sudden news of her husband’s…