... : woman's negligee or bathrobe - quadroon: person descended from one black grandparent and three white grandparents - unwonted: unexpected. Figures of Speech The most important figure of speech in the story is irony. It occurs most notably at the end, when Armand discovers that it is he who is of mixed racial ancestry. Another example of ... irony is the fact that Désirée's child becomes fatherless after Armand rejects his wife and the boy. Eighteen years before, Désirée, crying "Dada," was fatherless when Monsieur ... ...

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... God - the eternal perspective, and, to a less extent, about pleasure, learning and art. Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterised by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument. Wit and conceit were both aspects ... have forms and traditions placed on it. -Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide/Late school boyes."œ Apostrophe: The persona asserts his confidence and superiority in a dramatic and quinessential...

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... their marriage, Dorigen gives Aurelius an impossible task to win her love, knowing that he could never remove all the rocks from the coast of Brittany. This is a moment of irony because Dorigen is promising her love to a man other then her husband, but the impossible task will benefit her husband; "for the rocks that she asks Aurelius to remove ... ...

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... lover Titania's ever had, but he sure is a handy guy to have around. (Shakespeare's term for working man, "mechanical," here takes on new meaning.) (Robert Alleva, 20) The irony and at the same time comic effect, of the love affair in the opera is that of all people the proud Titania should become infatuated with the clumsy, translated Bottom ... ...

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... to brawl again; their lives shall pay the penalty. "If you ever disturb our streets again, lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" (This is the first sign of Irony) It is ironic because eventually Romeo and Juliet's lives pay the penalty, before this arrogant brawl can be put to an end. Romeo behaves in a "lovestruck" way at the start ... ...

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... added in, I feel that Chaucer is in no way mocking Dante. First of all, I see nothing in the text telling us this is the case. I find nothing that hints towards irony or sarcasm. The final six stanzas seem very straightforward to me, and that they really are the narrator's thoughts. Secondly, if we look at Chaucer's life and audience, we see ... ...

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... feelings in the minds of most women, however the speaker cleverly lures them back within his grasp through the vivid descriptions of his intensely romantic fantasies in lines 3-20. The irony extends itelf in these lines, for although he just finished admonishing his lady for her squandering of valuable time, the ensuing 18 lines of rhyme ! give virtually no heed to ... ...

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... dreams; therefore they control your state of mind. Also a love-madness theme weaves together unrelated portions of the play. Shakespeare creates unity by flooding the play with moonlight. (Kenneth 29) Irony is a large element in the play. Many of the situations are ironic. Instead of attracting and falling in love with a gentlewoman, Theseus won Hippolyta with his sword. Also, Helena's affection ... ...

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... world, and she even made an engagement with Algy without telling him. All things about Algy are in Cecily's hand; she controls them with her own will. This is an irony to the age in which Oscar Wilde lived, women in that time were often "attached" by men and impossible to be individual. Here I'd like to analyze certain characters in act ... ...

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... woman, particularly the monetary depedency, is indicative of a degree of role reversal in Rob's relationship with Laura. This shift in economic power gives Laura a certain preeminence in their relationship. The irony, however, is that she did not use this power to dictate terms within the relationship. Instead, Rob used her wealth as a means of abusing her. It seemed at times that ... ...

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The Importance of Being Earnest (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) Oscar Wilde said "We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality." This essay investigates how far "The Importance of Being Earnest" reflects thi...

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... Church and similar organizations. They were accused of being devil worshipers and linked to the Finnish Satanists. HIM denied all accusations of having any ties with the infamous group; the irony was that the Finnish Satanists did not want anything to do with HIM because the band was not in favor of spreading the satanic message and their philosophy. By 1998 ... ...

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... Mercutio is dying, he puts the lame upon Romeo, and asks why he came into the fight between him and Tybalt. As Mercutio finally passes away, Romeo uses a sense of irony in his words when he says This days black fate on mo day's doth depend'. He is telling us that he knew in the back of his mind he knew ... ...

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... that all this imagining comes true. It makes the audience feel ironic as they think they know what is going to happen without actually being certain and they recognise this irony during this part of the play. The quote that best sums up both their lives and how fate is a big part of this is "Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars ... ...

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