Examples of Literary ironies
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Ironic Questions: Literary
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After studying the book 'of mice and men' I want to shoot myself in the back of my head?... |
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Is it ironic that my buddy took over 12 hours to respond to my email and in his response he complained that I take too long to respond to, or check, emails?... |
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Jesus was betrayed with a kiss? |
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the designers of a website that is dedicated to helping people develop their English writing skills (as well a their understanding of irony) have forgotten to capitalize the word "English" in one of the boxes at the top of their homepage? Hey, typos happen =)... |
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A young boy tells his mother is a very loud voice that he can say the word whisper.... |
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My young son tells me in a very loud voice that he's learnt how to say the word whisper... |
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From Saving Private Ryan- the General had a metal plate welded to the glider to protect him causing the glider to crash from the added weight killing him.... |
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When using more difficult words to explain or clarify the meanings of other words... |
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All I want to do is eat my sandwich, but my one year old keeps shoving "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" in my face and demanding I read it, repeatedly.... |
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Is it ironic for someone to say:
"I wish I could be everywhere....... then I would be truly 'omnipotent'; unfortunately I can only be in one place at a time..... like the Devil!"... |
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Is it ironic that we do the opposite of what we think?
Is a situation ironic wherein our actions are the opposite of our thoughts or our values?... |
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necromantic books are heavenly? |
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... the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because their families are at war is the reason that the Montagues and Capulets reconcile at the end of the play?... |
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The word misspelled is often misspelled? |
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a guy who is way below average size and height has a personalized car number plate
that begins XXL?... |
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Is it ironic that Voltaire phrased this quotation "Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." as a fact?
Is it ironic that the Christopher Hitchens quote "An assertion made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." is frequently recited without evidence?... |
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when you go to a party thinking you would have a great time but realizing it wasn't as a as it seems be boring.... |
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when Annie Sullivan is teaching Helen Keller to sew is it ironic that instead of Helen stabbing her self she stabs Annie?... |
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in the poem THE SNAKE by D H Lawrence,the poet throws a piece of log at the retreating snake even after continually praising the snake and behaving like the it was the poet's honor to have the snake,so majestic,at his place and all the while cursing the voices of education which told him to kill the snake?
It would be better if you read the poem,we have a question in our literature text book regarding this,which I need to answer.
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Writing about King Lear going crazy is making me go crazy |
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in The Kite Runner, Hassan's young son suffers sexual abuse by the same person who raped him when he was a boy?... |
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a man spends 15 years in prison for 2 million but those years influenced him to refuse it at the end?... |
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In Pinter's play The Homecoming, Teddy comes home to his family with his wife Ruth and subsequently returns to his home in America at the end of the play without her?... |
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murder is bad and yet Hamlet showing restraint in murdering his uncle is considered his 'tragic flaw'?... |
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a man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets... |
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