Structural and Textural Irony Essay

Joyce Meyer once said, “Discipline is your friend, not your enemy.” Throughout history, parents have used this ideology to ensure children obey and respect authority. Ray Bradbury used his story, “The Veldt”, to make the point that discipline is essential for proper growth in adolescence. He believes that if parents do not discipline their children, it will lead to their demise. In the story, when the parents, Lydia and George, do not discipline their children, Wendy and Peter, the children lost respect for their parents.

In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe tells a story of a man named Fortunato, a professional wine taster, who has foolishly brought death upon himself. Fortunato has managed to anger a man with the name Montresor who has hatched a plan of revenge during a great carnival. To help the reader fully understand Poe uses three different kinds of irony verbal, dramatic, and situational. The verbal being their conversation, the dramatical, when he jokes about his health, and the situational when he is dressed as a jester.

In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” it deals with how someone can turn a seemingly nice night into a horrible and tragic ending. Montresor lures an inebriated Fortunato to show him a rich wine. But in a twist, Montresor chains him up and suffocates him. It uses an exceptional amount of irony, verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. Edgar Allan Poe, author of “The Cask of Amontillado,” writes using three different variants of irony to create an eerie and suspenseful atmosphere within the plot.

WetWind Alternatives Corp (WWA) produces electricity through alternative methods such as wave and wind turbines and owns two subsidiaries, Kahuku Wind Inc. and North Shore Wave Electric Inc. (NS Wave), on the north shore of Oahu, HI to utilize the resources of this geographic location in their business venture. Deloitte’s Case 13-06 – “Natural Irony: Accounting Considerations When There Is a Natural Disaster”, discusses a hypothetical scenario where a volcanic eruption causes massive damage to the subsidiaries’ operational assets and poses the question of how to properly record these occurrences in financial statements. The main issue is that Kahuku Wind and NW Wave’s fiscal year end is October 31st so that WWA can have complete

“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

While reading the short story “Sweat” it is very clear that the author uses irony, symbolism, and figurative language to help with the shaping of the story.

Yusef Komunyakaa and Eavan Boland illustrate their personal experiences in order to emphasize how mistakes or tragic events will follow you for the rest of your life. The events that occur personally will haunt you every second of your life until you come to terms with them. The poems “Facing It” and “The Necessity of Irony” both reflect on past memories by using similar language and tone in order to realize what is truly important in life for a better future.

Irony is a method of using words to take multiple stages of significance that difference with or confuse one another. In verbal irony, arguments are often used to make the exact conflicting of their precise meaning, such as when one individual reply to another’s mistake by saying “nice work.” Histrionic irony is used widely in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” For instance, when the speaker first labels the bedroom John has selected for them, she characterize the room’s strange features—the “rings and belongings” in the ramparts, the nailed-down fittings, the blocks on the windows, and the wavering wallpaper—to the detail that it must have when been used as a kindergarten. Even this initial in the story, the reader understands that there is a similarly reasonable explanation for these particulars: the apartment had been used to house a ridiculous

Literary elements vary in different kinds of stories and some are more effective than others. The irony is a literary element that shocks a reader at the end of the story with an unexpected event. A story with the element “Irony” can go from good to bad or from bad to good, depending on the type of story. For stories that deal with life and death, irony can enhance that topic. Such as when the author gives us a situation we feel is death related and then later the author makes us change our mind about a life situation. This element can be shown in both “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Interlopers” by Saki (H. H. Munro).However, Saki uses irony much more effectively in ‘The Interlopers”

One example of irony in my book Indigo’s Star is a verbal irony. As evidence, on page 63 of Indigo’s Star the text says “One of the rabble, not wanting the entertainment to stop so soon, called out, ‘Hey, Tom, tell us about your mother! How’re the bears getting on?’ Tom shrugged irritably, crossed the room, and banged himself down at a table. To explain, Tom told the rabble members that his mom works with bears at Yellowstone National Park. The rabble members don’t believe Tom, so they like to tease him about it. The rabble member asked Tom how the bears were even though he doesn’t think the bears are real, which is verbal irony.

In these letters, both writers are very determined to prove their point. These tone of these two letters greatly effected the impact of the overall argument. the writers of the first letters tone is very serious yet uninformed. This is show in the letter on how the writer gives solid claims, but doesn't back it up with facts and evidence. The writer of the seconds tine is also serious, but more informed on the subject. This is shown in the letter in how the writer gives solid claims and them backs them up with good facts and evidence. For example, '' Our district agreed to put wraparound ads on its lockers and now gets $200,000 a year." This is one of the many good facts the second writer uses to support his claims. The tones these writers

Without doubt, Edgar Allan Poe’s story is one of the author’s masterpiece. The story is an exhibit of artistic genius with various literary features well incorporated. Among them, irony, defined as, “A figure of speech which is a contradiction or incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs”, is the most evident. Allan Poe demonstrates the use of various types of irony throughout the play, which he uses to pass the intended message to the audience.

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

Irony is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. It is used throughout poetry and allows the reader to analyze and differentiate what seems, and what actually is. There are different types of irony including verbal, situational, and dramatic. Irony can be used in the titles of poems, or in themes and messages throughout them. There are many ways to interpret poetry, so irony is a powerful way of making a pointed comment or manipulating a reader's emotions.

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