... the working class "scum" at the bottom who comprised the majority of society. The play is set in an imaginary town called Brumley, somewhere in the north of England. Dramatic irony is involved in the early stages of the play. It is used on two occasions, one consecutively following the other. Birling states "Just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two ... the story was set just two years before the First World War, the audience would have known this, as the play was first performed in 1946. Another example of dramatic irony in the opening scene is when Birling is expressing his though...

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... pathos. The "ghastly suit of grey" straight away emphasises his depression and his sorry state. Owen amplifies the image by using alliteration. Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A hymn is a song of praise, the irony is that there is nothing cheerful about his situation. It is also a simile, which creates even more sadness. The young boy sits in ... ...

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... pathos. The "ghastly suit of grey" straight away emphasises his depression and his sorry state. Owen amplifies the image by using alliteration. Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A hymn is a song of praise, the irony is that there is nothing cheerful about his situation. It is also a simile, which creates even more sadness. The young boy sits in ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in the mood of an accusation or a challenge. The final four lines are compelling. The address to the listener beginning with "My friend" seems to be spoken in a tone of irony. "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria moi." Researching the history ... ...

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... and another corporal, both in poorly fitting uniforms, stand with two German girls who are "not beautiful" beside a Rhine that "does not show in the picture." The picture suggests an irony: the American soldiers, once enemies, date German girls with whom they share no common language. Because the American soldiers do not have to talk, and because the German girls are ... ...

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... his poem, metaphorically representing the copious amounts of soldiers who sacrificed themselves for their country, aren't getting proper burials, just horrendous mass burials. This type of event shows how the irony in Owen's title and the subject of the poem is giving the dead soldiers their only real burial. This highlights the huge, senseless sacrifice that the soldiers gave. The religious ... ...

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... linguistic features. In this poem, Owen tries to inform people of the ghastly effects of war and emphasises how isolated the victims of war become when they arrive home. The irony in the poem is that it is based around a veteran that fell for a lie of a promise for glory, as he was a victim of propaganda, and in thinking that he would ... ...

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... she is not a reliable narrator where the reader is concerned. A writer has a whole array of tools at his or her disposal. In Atonement, Ian McEwan uses all of them, from irony to symbolism, alas, it would seem that he plays with structure to some extent and this may be part of the reason the novel leaves one unsettled. The generational shifts ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School