Irony and Metaphor are literary language that plays very important roles in short stories and poetries. .
Irony can be described as a contrast between reality and expectations. There are three major categories of irony. The first category is Verbal Irony. This is when a writer or a speaker says one thing but really means the opposite. The second category is Situation Irony. This occurs when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected to happen. The third category is Dramatic Irony. This occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know. .
One example of Verbal Irony arises in a photo studio when John and Mike, two co-workers working together trying to fix a camera. Mike said to John, "See! I know what I"m doing." John replied, "You"re so smart, I should have known!" When John told Mike that Mike was smart, he did not meant what he said. He said that to defend that was he intelligent himself and also not feel insulted by what happened. Verbal Irony in this situation is John saying one thing and actually he means something else.
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An example of Situational Irony is after watching a long Korean tragic love movie; the family expected that there would be a happy ending where the boy and the girl will be together. But the ending turned out to be the complete opposite. The boy died instead. In this example, Situational irony plays an unexpected role at the last part of the movie where the boy died.
Dramatic Irony takes place a part in this movie. Two sisters got separated since one is around ten and the other around 15 years old. The whole store is about the older sister gone to look for her younger sister who lost her memory after a car accident. They got to know each other and were very close, not until the end the found out that they are sisters. In this movie, the audience knew all along that they were sisters but the character in the movie does not know.
Owen's use of irony in the word "anthem" in the title is his protest to war and horror against the deaths of youth. ... This is also an irony, because sonnets are mainly about love. ... The imagery is clearly seen as an image of people in grief. ... "Drawing down of blinds" is also a metaphor for covering sheets over the dead corpse. ... Metaphors are used in order to compare. ...
W.B Yeats illuminates the theme of his poem by using print, sound, imagery, metaphor, symbolism and irony. ... Using imagery and metaphor Yeats captures the childhood in ones memory. In the first and second stanza he gives us an image of the dream island. Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim grey sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and Fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles (14-22) In the same stanza he remind us of the real world "While the...
In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis also uses language techniques such as diction, hyperboles, and metaphors to establish certain ironies that develop disgust for Screwtape and the demons among the readers. ... Lewis creates several metaphors that show Screwtape's disgust with humans and their ideals. ... This is an ironic metaphor that compares the human race to an insignificant, short-lasting idea or event that has plagued the universe. ... A third example of metaphors used by the author is the military comparison used to describe temptations felt by the man in Letter XVII. ... In his almos...
This quote captures an image of Billy Budd's death being glorified, as though he were thrown into the sea like a piece of trash. ... Another way authors try to communicate propaganda is by the use of irony. ... In "Billy in the Darbies," no one specific quote can point out its irony. ... This is an odd use of irony, which I still can not comprehend why Melville used drowning for the irony. ... Herman Melville accomplishes this beautifully through the use of hyperboles, allusions, similes, and metaphors. ...
Irony or ambiguity? ... Do images develop due to it? What is the purpose of the images? ... - Figurative Language/Literary Devices: Are there metaphors/similes/personification? ... Focus on them of irony, then pick evidence from text to prove it...
Owen uses poetic devices such as the imagery of the soldiers face as he dies, similes that contrast the stereotypical image of a soldier and irony to directly attack the common war cries and attitudes used to recruit young men into the army during World War One and ultimately positions its reader to respond negatively to the issue of war. Dulce Et Decorum Est uses the poetic devices of similes and metaphors to contrast the stereotypical image of a soldier in a negative attitude. ... "Knock kneed, coughing like hags" gives us the image of drunk, blind, sick and miserable men "...we cursed thr...
Similar to other poets of Shakespeare's time, Sonnet 130, he used a combination of metaphors and similes to portray the eternal beauty of his mistress. However unlike Petrarch whose poems were written as a series of love poems to an idealized and idolized mistress, Shakespeare left out exaggerated metaphors. ... Irony exists within these lines because Shakespeare uses metaphors that are not in his lover's favor allowing us to vulnerably assume that he does not really love her. ... The reader begins to relate to the images and recognizes the characteristics used as true beauty. ....
Metaphor and the use of multiple narratives are two central ways in which Lalage creates an existence for Poppy. ... Through this metaphor Lalage creates a woman in the image of Adriadne. She creates a fictional filter through which to view Poppy; an image of abandonment and loss, underlined by an unfailing metaphor. Lalage's use of the Adriadne myth in creating a fictional image of Poppy is constructive in that it serves to echo and reinforce both the form and purpose of the novel. ... For example, irony is applied liberally in recalling the connection of the 1959 Health Act with the...
Firstly I will be exploring Metaphor as it is used so much in this poem. ... There are several image groups used in this poem, two of which I will be reviewing. The first image group is "Sleep or Dreams". ... The second and final image group I will be studying is: "Sea or Drowning". ... Methods which I found most effective were Full rhyme and metaphor. ...
