Irony

Dramatic irony is a heatedly debated topic in contemporary literary criticism. This issue is especially explored in Sophoclean criticism in light of the tragic ambivalence which is well known in Sophoclean study. Rich scholarly contributions to dramatic irony were made in the past decades and the debate over the meaning of dramatic irony and its relation to tragic ambivalence is still under discussion. In the debate, scholars’ strong interest in Sophoclean language as a media to interpret…

The Landlady Have you ever noticed a deer's head on a wall, or a bear as a carpet. Well the landlady in the story The Landlady has done more than that. She has stuffed things herself. This may be a result of her being crazy or just her being lonely. She was sneaky enough to do more than just that. The landlady is a rather stealthy woman. She isn’t strong enough to take Billy out by fighting. For that reason she thinks of poisoning him. Even as she brought Billy some tea he didn’t…

“The Cask of Amontillado” deals with many elements commonly found in works of fiction. The point of view, setting, and the use of irony all work together to create a horrifyingly perfect short story that manages to be both entertaining and vile simultaneously. In terms of this essay N.I.S. doesn’t just stand for National Intelligence Service, but instead narrator, irony, and setting. The story is told from the perspective of a first person narrator named Montresor. Montresor is a cold-blooded…

her short story “The Story of an Hour.” In this short story, irony is displayed in many ways. A marriage is shared between a man and woman in the story in which the woman is responsible for the man’s happiness. It is revealed within the text that the wife is miserable in the life she lives with her husband. Throughout the course of the story, the marriage shared between the two main characters is how the theme of irony develops. Irony is depicted in the short story “The Story of an Hour” through…

story it is apparent how the setting, in a forest during a windy night, supports situational irony. It promotes irony in that if it wasn’t windy or even in a forest this story could have possibly never happened and “a mass of falling beech tree . . . thundered down on them” trapping them, ultimately ending in their demise would not have happened either. The end of the story also contains verbal comic relief irony when “both men raised their voices in as loud a shout as they could muster”…

was 25 when he died just one week before the war ended. Also Tim O’Brien, author of The things they carried was drafted into the Vietnam war which had 58,000 American deaths, and 2,000,000 Vietnamese deaths. In these documents, writers use imagery, irony, and structure to protest war. Throughout the documents, in the yellow birds by Kevin Powers, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, imagery is used to protest war. In the yellow birds, Powers states “killing men and shooting them in the…

gifts. Henry reveals the theme in this story by using irony and characterization. Irony is the unexpected outcomes. “ I had my hair cut off and sold because I could not have lived through Christmas without giving you a present.” (page 3) Della sold her hair for a gift for her loved one. This revels the theme that she would rather give than get. Della sacrifices her beautiful hair for something that she thinks Jim values most his watch. The irony is that Della…

good novel a great one. (Awkward) In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, he cleverly uses literary devices like irony and foreshadowing. These contribute to the meaning of the novel by (Need Better Reasons) shaping the plot and providing insight into the characters’ mindsets. (Or ‘characterizing the book’s characters.) One of many literary devices found in the novel is irony. Irony is used to connect different events in the plot. (Ask About Tense) For example, Amir’s father Baba paid for…

the end is so fulfilling especially since you feel like this is your adventure. I love this story for many reasons one is the irony, it's phenomenal another reason is the amazing symbolism and finally all the action is everywhere in this book and it makes it much more exciting and engaging. The first reason for loving this book is its phenomenal irony. In chapter 26 the irony is at its peak. For example when Miss Gates says, “‘Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution…

Montresor has been insulted endless times by Fortunato and plans to take away Fortunato's life with the deception of a cask of Amontillado. Irony is defined as a feeling, tone, mood, or attitude arising from the awareness that what is In “The Cask of Amontillado”, the characters are ironic by their name, costume, and dialogue. his story is built on irony since the beginning. In the title we have the word Cask, which means wine barrel, but it is derived from the same root word used to form…