Sarcasm

and sarcasm well is just sarcasm. That’s why I am here today. I am here to talk about the consequences of not having common sense and not understanding sarcasm. For ones out there who don’t have common sense and don’t understand sarcasm, you should pay attention to what I am about to say. About three years ago, my mother downloaded a game on her tablet called “What’s my IQ?” by Orangenose Studios. This game calculates your “IQ” by “common sense”, don’t think outside the box questions. There were questions and scenarios like “move the car”, “slide the bar left”, and “sally has 5 siblings. How many kids does her mother and father have?” When my family and I saw the questions, we all…

Moore, poor public perception of schools and teachers also contribute to the issue, and as a result under-qualified teachers are often the ones who teach in under-funded schools. He also blames corporations for excessively advertising in schools and getting in the way of education. The corporations provide funding to schools, and in exchange the schools advertise to students, requiring the students to change what they do at school, according to Moore. Moore’s writing is ineffective because his…

Murdock is in need of a private detective, and she heard Marlowe can get the job done. He is hired and his duty is to find Mrs. Murdock’s daughter-in-law, Linda, without anyone getting arrested. Linda has stolen one of the valuable coins that Mrs. Murdock’s deceased husband collected. Already the suspicion starts when Marlowe senses that Mrs. Murdock is not telling him the entire story; she doesn’t want her son, or the cops, to have any part in this investigation. Marlowe keeps readers…

Out of the two stories I read “story of an hour” by Kate Chopin and “gift of magi” by O Henry, “the story of an hour” most effectively employs the use of irony. Chopin’s brilliant ways of using the irony in the story was the main reason why his readers can’t always predict the path of the story as they are constantly can’t be sure of the twists and turns it will take them to. In "The Story of an Hour", there are lots of instants when the irony took its place in the story. One of these…

There are no elements of writing that can compare to the brutal twists of irony. It is like a torture device used on the characters of a story for our entertainment. In reality, we have no control over the ironic torments life hands to us, and that is why it is so prevalent in fiction. Not only can we control something so elusive, but we can use it strategically to create tales that shock and captivate an audience. This strategic use of irony in story telling can be seen in Flannery O’Conner’s…

there are many great personality traits, sarcasm seems to be the best one to have. We’ve all come in contact with shy, annoying, flamboyant, self-centered, sweet, kind-hearted varieties of people in this world, but none of them come close to the distinct aroma sarcasm gives off. To get accustomed with this great trait, one has to understand and learn what it takes to be sarcastic. This quality doesn’t come easy and will take some time to master, but don’t get discouraged just yet. When one…

Satire is used in literature to criticize and point out society’s flaws. The criticism is usually masked in humour. Irony is commonly used in satires to expose flaws, an effective example is John Smith’s A Modest Proposal, in this essay he effectively uses irony, to communicate his argument about the poverty in Ireland. Similarly, in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale she criticizes the society that women live in. Atwood uses satire to display the oppression of women in political, religious…

Catch 22 was written by Joseph Heller, who is well known for writings satire novels. Joseph Heller, the author, uses many different examples of satire.Catch-22 is usually called a comic satirical novel. A comic satirical novel is a literary genre in which comedic forms , exaggeration, are used to focus on human weakness and societal problems.In Catch 22 the author takes the reader on an emotional trip through the extended use of satire. Satire is the use of humor to expose others stupidity…

We use slang in English to communicate effectively in an informal manner, and with some degree of humor. In Slang Origins by Woody Allen, the author explains how a variety of phrases became known as slang. Allen included stories of slang derived from marital customs and how the woman accepted or rejected the proposal, misunderstandings because of not being able to hear what someone else said properly, and ones that started because of something a single person did that was amusing. These origins…

coldly furnish forth the marriage tables"(I.ii.179). This is an example of sarcasm insulting the idea that as soon as his father died that his mother remarried oh so very quickly as if the marriage was because of the death of this father. Because it is rather strange for someone to remarry that quickly after losing someone they used to love, unless she didn't love him at all. Also shown is that Hamlet is much more Intelligent and sane as first thought when Polonius arrived and spoke with him and…