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This paper consists of twenty pages and discusses how irony is used in the poem to express meaning. There are no other sources li...
is socioeconomic status. They point to evidence that there is a higher prevalence of abuse and a greater use of punishment in low...
In five pages this paper subjects Ibsen's social drama to a literary analysis that focuses on characterization, plot, and irony. ...
In six pages this paper examines irony as it shapes character development and relationships. Five sources are cited in the biblio...
In five pages this paper discusses how in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and in Ibsen's Ghosts the playwrights are able to convey so...
that is the most threatening aspect of revolutionary behavior. A large percentage of Americans are content with their lives an ar...
In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Auden employs the literary techniques of allusion and irony in his poem 'Unk...
In 3 pages the uses of irony in this social drama are examined. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....
In five pages the practice of 'wilding' and its evil influence are examined in terms of biased diction, definition, irony, and met...
In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...
In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...
In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...
Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...
depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...
Encyclopedia, 5th edition, and notes that irony is: ". . . figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user...
said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...
then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
a nineteenth century war that the U.S. initiated with Mexico. Teacher Bill Bigelow describes how a traditional history textbook c...
Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
great deal of information about the Birlings, even before they speak. It is a family dinner, but the setting is extremely formal a...
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
a decrease in the use of defined benefit pension schemes and a movement towards defined contributions schemes. This paper looks at...
The term, personality, is difficult to define because different theorists define it in different ways. Allport, for example, belie...