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Is It Ironic That...?

176 a guy who is way below average size and height has a personalized car number plate that begins XXL?...

177 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?...

178 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....

179 when Annie Sullivan is teaching Helen Keller to sew is it ironic that instead of Helen stabbing her self she stabs Annie?...

180 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. Thank You..!!!...

181 Writing about King Lear going crazy is making me go crazy

182 in The Kite Runner, Hassan's young son suffers sexual abuse by the same person who raped him when he was a boy?...

183 a man spends 15 years in prison for 2 million but those years influenced him to refuse it at the end?...

184 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?...

185 murder is bad and yet Hamlet showing restraint in murdering his uncle is considered his 'tragic flaw'?...

186 a man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets...

187 Holden Caulfield describes himself as illiterate though his best subject is English and he loves to read....

188 Finally, he answered with some lame excuse. I'm still not sure exactly what the problem was. Repeat scenario. Add water and stir....

189 In a book, a thief is dating a cop?

190 in the book "Jane Eyre," Jane gets annoyed with Ms. Ingram for needing to impress people, when later she shows us that she has a strong desire to impress as well....

191 A grammatically incorrect sentence on an exam paper warning that points will be deducted for poor spelling and grammar....

192 you write a book about creativity and invent interviews from famous people to support your work?...

193 Sarah won a Justin Bieber concert ticket from her local radio station. This ticket gave her assess to an exclusive VIP concert seat. Immediately after Sarah won the tickets, she became ecstatic! She pictured herself in the finest clothes, being driven in a limousine, with everyone whispering about how beautiful she was. She would be the most popular and beautiful girl of the evening. The evening of the concert would be the best time of her life! Sarah told her mother about the ticket and asked for a new outfit and limousine service for the concert. When Sarah's mother learned that she had won a single ticket, Sarah's mother suggested that Sarah wear some of the beautiful clothes that she already owned and sell the VIP ticket. The profit would allow Sarah to buy two front row tickets that she and her best friend Lauren could enjoy. Sarah's mother also suggested that instead of renting a limousine, Lauren's mother could drive the girls to the concert. Convinced that her mother did not understand the importance of the evening, Sarah rejected her mother's suggestions and asked again for a new outfit and a limousine to drive her to and from the concert. Sarah insisted on buying clothes that her mother could not afford. She did not care that her mother could not afford the clothes because this was going to be the best time of her life! On the night of the concert, Sarah's limousine driver was a very old woman who only allowed soft classical music to be played in her limousine. Sarah's VIP section was so exclusive that she was the only person in it and the driver was in such a rush to get home that drove Sarah home directly after Justin's last song. No one saw Sarah's outfit. The night did not turn out the way Sarah had intended. To make matters worse, her mother had to get an evening job to pay off the debt of Sarah's new outfit and limousine service. Now, Sarah will be stuck in the house with her older brother, who teases and annoys her, every evening, for the next 10 months....

194 Maya Angelou is often cited as the source for a quotation which begins: "people will forget what you said."...

195 A boy whose father abandoned him and sent him to Cuba to constantly gazes across the sea wishing he could see all the way to Cuba to see his father. Later, as an adult, he is captured and imprisoned during the Bay of Pigs invasion, after which he gazes out to sea wishing he could see all the way back to Miami....

196 Daniel Defoe, a man, is often credited with starting the feminist movement?...

197 "...when he [ a "mould runner" ] inquired how he was to light the fire his master kicked him jovially on the thigh and suggested that he should ask another mould-runner . His master was not a bad man at heart , it was said, but on tuesdays , after sunday and saint monday , masters were apt to be capricious"...

198 Studying psychology can make one crazy?

199 A jellyfish is described using the following words: "It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water."...

200 our teacher defines irony as "incongruity between what happens and what is expected to happen", hands us a book of short stories and tells us that they all have ironic endings, thus making us expect ironic endings?...