Mock-heroic

Electra is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It tells the story of Electra and her brother Orestes. The play tells the tale of how they reunite after several years (maybe eight) of being apart and consult how to revenge their father after their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus murder their father, Agamemnon. Electra was written late in Euripides’ career, sometime between 410s and 420s BCE, although the actual date is uncertain since Sophocles also wrote his version of

Geoffrey Chaucer’s and while he did not encounter the same fame, he does mirror Chaucer’s characteristics. Parallels between The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and The Cock and The Fox include style, themes, and character development. These tales are told in mock-heroic, which takes a trivial event and elevates it into something of greater importance. It treats a trivial event as if it were inspirational. Chaucer uses elevated language to describe a fox catching a rooster in a barnyard a far cry from the classic

readers that the genre of “My Kid’s Dog” is a successfully written comedy. Hansen’s elements of comedy unfold the plot into something that seems to be a little impossible. The uses of comedic elements such as high comedy, low comedy, sarcasm, wit, and mock revenge in “My Kid’s Dog” by Ron Hansen fits in the genre of comedy. The main character takes the death of their family’s pet, Sparky, not as serious as most would. In the beginning of “My Kid’s Dog”, the man discusses his feelings about the dog, and

In the world of literature and poetry, it’s typically not hard to find something written about a hero, or something heroic, like an epic. Epics are long poems, typically told orally in ancient times, about the adventures of a hero or heroine and their deeds. The Iliad should immediately come to the mind of any student proficient in western literature. Nonetheless, the themes and archetypes of these works known as epics are so well-known, that they are even parodied, take completely out of context

battle’ “three bands [prepared] in arms,” troops sent to “combat on the velvet plain” of the card table”(Pope,31,44.). In epic tales from this time epic battles would generally be as a result of great heroic sporting contest and not of three people sitting down to play a game of cards, thus highlighting the mock epic theme to this

tells his comrades that they should stand up for their freedom and fight back against the whites. McKay wrote this poem as an English sonnet, meaning the poem consists of fourteen lines, quatrain and couplet rhyme scheme, and lines 14 and 15 are a heroic couplet - iambic pentameter. “If we must die, let it not be like hogs,” McKay wrote, “Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot.” To start off, one can see that McKay metaphorically

milksop after all, did he, when you murdered his friends and gobbled them up in your cave? Your sins were sure to find you out, you cruel brute!” (117) Odysseus is very boastful when he has victory over his opponents. He outsmarts Polyphemus, and then mocks him after escaping the cave. This shows that Odysseus is not setting a good example for his crew of men. “ But I was determined not to listen, and shouted again in my fury: ‘I say Cyclops! if ever any one asks

IRONY IN POPE’S EPISTLES Irony as a literary tool was utilized to its full potential by one of the most celebrated poet and satirist of the eighteenth century, Alexander Pope. He choosed irony as the prime instrument for his satiric hit as he found irony to be a more delighting and amusing medium. Pope’s ironic ability in writing was well reflected in his verse satires, and his famous epistles. In his works, by means of his humor and wit, Pope satirized the follies and foibles in men and

How Form Highlights Lack of Logic in Political Rhetoric “next to of course god america i,” a poem by E.E Cummings is a political speech written in the form of a sonnet. The last line of the poem, “He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water” signifies to the reader that the first thirteen lines of the poem which is in quotation marks is a speech given to an audience. The poem is filled with patriotic songs in the first and second quatrain that echo common political rhetoric. The lines of the poem

Heroic Ignorance and Gothic Novels Jane Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, seeks to explore the effect of wealth on society. Throughout the novel, this portrayal of wealth assumes an increasingly critical tone, and is thus used to suggest the negative impact of financial goals in a relationship. This is shown in the contrast between Catherine’s relationship with Mr. Tilney, and Isabella’s promiscuous ways. In this dynamic, Catherine remains pure, engaged to a poor clergyman, whereas her friend Isabella