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Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Dramatic Irony in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

'Irish Conversation' Metaphor and Southwest Airlines

Clearly, the relationship between Southwest Airlines marketing division as guided by owner Herb Kelleher and the metaphoric Irish ...

The Functions of Figurative Speech

In this commercial, the monk probably is not a soccer player, yet the metaphor of the Coke is supposed to suggest excitement, but ...

The Guest 3 by Albert Camus

want to play God. But Balducci insists; regardless of what Daru chooses to do with the prisoner afterwards, Balducci is leaving th...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

Robert Frost's Irony and Humor

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Frost humorously employs irony in his poems 'The Secret Sits,' 'A Cloud Shadow,' 'Mending Wall...

Figures of Speech Favored by William Wordsworth

This five paper examines the various figures of speech used by Wordsworth to portray irony, imagery, and other themes in his poem,...

'Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Irony

In 3 pages the author's employment of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this short story is analyzed. There are 2 source...

Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Dramatic Irony

In five pages the representation of dramatic irony in these plays are compared in terms of their similarities. There are no other...

Motion Picture Industry and Future of Computer Graphics

In ten pages an evaluation of whether the creation of special effects through computer generated graphics is merely a passing tren...

Room With a View by E.M. Forster

In twenty pages this paper considers the literary devices including symbolism, tone, irony, and metaphor that the author employs i...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

'A Father' by Bharati Mukherjee and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...

Journey's End A View of the Conflicts of War by R.C. Sherriff and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

In five pages these works are compared in a consideration of peace and issues of heroism along with war irony and symbolism as ref...

Lingering Power of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

dysfunction goes far beyond the limits of the household, hinting at a world that is itself out of sync and in a state of disarray....

George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man and R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End

In five pages these plays are compared and analyzed in a consideration of irony and expectation as well as appearance versus reali...

Renaissance Era Poetry as 'a Speaking Picture' Body of Work

In ten pages this 'speaking picture' approach to poetry during the Renaissance focuses upon the English poetry of Francis Quarles....

Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease, Moliere's Tartuffe, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Irony

daughters. This structurally ironic situation creates the entire basis for the plot of King Lear, as it quickly becomes apparent...

Original Motion Picture Celebrities

In five pages this paper discusses the original stars of film and considers how and why they became celebrities. Five sources are...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

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...

Irony in 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper discusses the author's use of irony in the essay 'A Modest Proposal.' One source is cited in the bibliog...

'Unknown Citizen' by W.H. Auden

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Auden employs the literary techniques of allusion and irony in his poem 'Unk...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Irony

In 3 pages the uses of irony in this social drama are examined. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....

A Rhetorical Strategy Analysis

In five pages the practice of 'wilding' and its evil influence are examined in terms of biased diction, definition, irony, and met...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

Analyzing 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Paradox and Irony

In 5 pages this paper examines the uses of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony as it emphasizes the plot's paradox within the ...

Classical Literature, Character Vision and Irony

In five pages this paper discusses irony and lack of vision in such works as The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Lysistrata, and ...