'A Mother's Irony In Everyday Use'

Why do authors use situational irony, what significance does it hold, and what’s the impact on the reader? According to Van Thompson, an attorney/ writer “Situational irony can make a plot twist more interesting, draw attention to a reader's unwarranted biases, or show how a character handles an unexpected situation”(Thompson). Situational irony adds excitement and helps the reader focus on what’s happening in the plot. This type of irony happens in life, and literature all the time. It’s crucial to understand because, without the understanding of situational irony you’re only reading words, and seeing situations without the understanding of the cause. In conclusion the significance of situational irony is great due to the power it holds in literature and everyday life.

Throughout the story, “The Open Window”, there are many examples of irony. Irony can be funny, serious, or even scary. There are three types of irony; which are; situational, dramatic, and verbal. Situational is what is expected to happen and what actually happens. Dramatic is when the audience know more about something that is happening than the character does. Finally, verbal is the use of words meaning something different than what they actually mean.

Maya Angelou, creator of such poems as Still I Rise and Phenomenal Woman, stated that the Martin Luther King Jr’s works gave her the inspiration and instruction she needed to become the writer that she is. Shane Koyczan, as does Maya Angelou, fills the reader's mind with real life stories of those who have fell into the hands of bullying, 3 His use of vivid, real life examples of people, who he was personally known, gives his audience, those who have personally dealt with bullying and feel as if they are alone, a sense of reassurance. Koyczan’s poem "To This Day" is a story about three people, one being the author himself, another being a girl that he went to school with, and the last being a boy that Koyczan witnessed being bullied, who have

A strongminded man who has everything going for him, nice job nice car, great friends, etc. comes home every night to a sick mother whom he takes care of after a long day of living a lavish life. His one weakness is his sick mother because she taught him everything. No one, not even his best friend knows about his other life and so that 's how he keeps it. Oh the irony right? Big strong man afraid to live his truth in fear of change and facing his reality. In The Metamorphosis, author Franz Kafka speaks on a character name Gregor, who somehow manages to transform into a hideous insect, and the ironic life he lives. During the story Gregor has a family whom he cares for, a job as a salesman, and a lack in

Write a short story that includes an ironic twist of events (situational irony). To spark your thinking, think of a time what you experienced something that turned out very differently from the expected outcome.

¨Richards was to late. When the doctors came they said she died of heart disease - of joy that kills.¨ This is an expert from the Kate Chopin story The Story of an Hour. The plot to the story is one of massive irony. A woman is told that her husband has died in a train accident. Instead of doing what is expected she is happy to hear that he has died. She proceeds to have this joy and she adopts a new look on the world, one of freedom. In a twist ending her husband shows up to her house, not dead and completely unaware that there was even an accident. The wife, Mrs. Mallard then dies of shock that he hasn’t died. There are two types of irony in the story, situational and dramatic.

“Audrey come on, do you want to go watch a movie or something” Ronny asked.

Its 7:09 am and Olivia is woken up by a wetness between her legs. She looks down and finds that the wetness is actually her water that broke. She anxiously wakes up her husband John, and the two of them quickly gather their things. After nine long months of waiting, John and Olivia are finally on their way to the hospital to welcome their first child into the world. The two have already chosen Jacob Alexander as the baby's name and have the nursery ready for him at home. Once at the hospital, Olivia and John meet with their doctor, Dr. Rodriguez, who assures the anxious couple that everything will be fine and their new son will be in their arms in just a matter of hours. It is now 8:22 am and the pain from

that belittled the potential and hard work that the young women in my high school did and still

Mom just sat and cried. She cried for three whole days. her face was blotchy and her eyes were red. Then one day she just stopped...

“The Eye of the Beholder” uses situational irony and the ending was opposite of what you expected. It builds up until her face bandage is taken off in the end and she has what we would describe as “a normal” face. Throughout the video, you hear how her face has always been different and how she has gone through many treatments to get her face somewhat like other’s faces, but all failed and her face stayed the same, making you think that her face must be really awful. The tension builds even more when he says that this would be the last chance for her ugly face to be fixed and that if this failed she would have to live in a community with her “deformity”. Finally, in the end, when the doctors take off her bandages it shows that she had what

The poem that I am writing about is "Life is Fine" by Langston Hughes. It is a narrative poem. In some stanzas there is the rhyme scheme of abcb. In other stanzas Hughes uses slant rhymes in the second and fourth lines. This poem is about a black man during segregation. The message of the poem is that life will get better in the future.

There re several types of irony like situational irony. Irony is when appearances are different from reality. Situational one is when an event occurs in a different way that what was anticipated or hope for. Verbal is using language to express the gap between appearance and reality.

Laughter; it is a crazy thing. We never intentionally laugh, it is always someone or something else that makes us, well, laugh. There are comedians whose jobs and livelihood rely on us laughing. But in my case, it is no comedian or actor, it is my mom.

Once Upon a Social Issue Fairy tales have always been told to us as children; whether to comfort or entertain us, they always seem to be a part of everyone’s childhood. “Once Upon A Time”, the title is a characteristic of a fairy tale, but she leads the story to an ending that is anything other than “happily ever after” (Gordimer 12). Although Nadine Gordimer’s title is typical in a fairy tale in the story “One upon a time”, the story she writes is anything but typical. Instead of dealing with characteristics and synonymous with fairy tales, the author uses irony to reflect the idea of humans