Boom! I am a snob! There are many booms in the life of a billionaire. From real safety threats to crazy changes in life, life as a billionaire is full of surprises. Irony can be used in many ways, including humor, suspense, and to highlight a character's flaws.…
The short stories “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne use verbal irony to elaborate the text. Both short stories explain the verbal type of irony. Verbal irony is a situation in which a character says the opposite of what he or she means. Verbal irony is not always shown in the text directly. The reader most of the time has to continue reading until the end of the passage, to actually see if it was verbal irony instead of a different type of irony.…
1. Chalykoff, Lisa, Neta Gordon, and Paul Lumsden, eds. The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Short Fiction. (BV)…
In literature, a character’s journey is almost always characterized by a change in the status quo that presents a problem and the character’s reaction that presents a solution. However, that solution is not always successful as some characters choose to be proactive and take action while others hesitate. Compared to Young Ju and The Hunger Artist, Janie most successfully adjusts to different environments by placing a strong emphasis on individuality while she takes action.…
Weatherall did not have an easy life. She was jilted at the altar, lost a child, and later on played the role of mother and father when her husband died. When she talks about herself she talks about all the hard work that usually corresponds to the man along with the typical responsibilities of a mother that she had to do. Even when lying on her deathbed, she tries to convince herself and those around her that she is in perfect health and makes plans for the following days. Miss Brill, on the other side, is an English teacher in France who lives an uneventful and routinary life, but maintains a panglossian attitude. She spends her days at the park eavesdropping and every once in a while she wears her old fur wrap with great pride. The only thing that makes Ms. Brill’s life better is finding an almond…
Fahrenheit 451 has many forms of irony and it is a strong driving force used by Bradbury to push his point across to the reader. There are many instances where Bradbury uses irony to drive the point home. For example, the elephant in the room would be the fact that firemen start fires. This is a huge driving force to the theme that society is falling under the spell of censorship. Another good example of irony is how Clarisse is considered antisocial in this novel for being what the reader considers social. She is seen as different for thinking and wanting to conversate past small talk. One last example I will offer is that Mildred and her friends call the characters on the screens their family but won’t call their literal family their family.…
Often times, personal experience has an impact on a person’s future. These experiences may hold a big value in life. For example, in One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty, she recalls early experiences of books and reading that had a great impact on her life. Specifically, Welty uses informal language to convey how her early experiences shaped her life. Welty describes Ms. Calloway in an exceptionally detailed and abstract way.…
The worst feeling a person can experience in a lifetime is cooping with the loss of a loved one. While the unknown author was reading stories in remembrance and recognition of his former partner, he was all alone trying to let the memories of his undying devotion he shared for Lenore go. Once the author heard the tapping at the door his became excited, until he noticed nobody was there. At that moment he looked out into the dark, cold, and gloomy December night and it made him feel that sense of emptiness all over again. His mournful state of mind was combined with his never ending remembrance of Lenore. As he turned and heard the tap once more he became excited again, for this time he knew somebody was there for him. The…
Besides the symbolism in the story, the types of irony used, situational and dramatic irony help emphasize the image of a family dealing with each other while dealing with the phase of death. The family relations as well as the country environment are expressed through these types of irony. They often occur as while the book does deal with serious issues, the family dynamic is a big part of the novel and the people around them get involved with them.…
Throughout life there will be many instances where a persons perspective is forced to change, whether it be brought about by maturity of time, the people we meet or the experiences in our life- good or bad. This is evident in Hannah Roberts’ story ‘Sky High’ which explores the transition from the innocence and imagination of childhood to an adult with less freedom and more responsibility and Eleanor Farjeon’s poem ‘It was long ago’, which captures an incident that occurred when the protagonist was around three years old. Roberts employs a range of language devices including 1st person narrative, colloquial language, metaphors, similes, hyperbole, low modality language and accumulation of imagery to illuminate this concept while Farjeon relies on the forms of poetry such as enjambment, onomatopoeia and the structure of the rhythm scheme to elucidate her protagonist’s change in perspective.…
Susan Griffin gives the impression that she is attracted to nature. Although the poem is depressing, the setting seems lively. The poem is depressing because it touches a very deep subject “love”. While Griffin attempts to tell her version of how love should be, her voice seems grievous. The poems lines are profound and touching. Almost as if she wanted to magically become a wild iris herself. And forget all about the turmoil that is attached with love.…
In Karen Russell’s short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, she develops the progression of the characters in relation to The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. The characters, young girls raised as if they were wolves, are compared to the handbook with optimism that they will adapt to the host culture. The girls’ progression in the five set stages are critical to their development at St. Lucy’s. The author compares Claudette, the narrator, to the clear expectations the handbook sets for the girls’ development. Claudette’s actions align well with the five stages, but she has outbursts that remind her of her former self.…
In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.…
But she sees England as a land of hope and possibility. Gradually as the poem progresses she “becomes accustomed to the English life” and “changes her calypso ways”. Cleverly as she becomes adjusted to the different culture, the poet’s language changes also, this is to emphasise the fact that her habits have changed.…
Although the room seems so lonely and dark as she peers out the window the most beautiful scenes come to her. Blue patches seem to take their place through the clouds suggesting a way out. A person seems to be singing and birds are present which give you a sense of life, happiness and freedom.…