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Hornby Uses Hyperbole Plays A Very Important Part Life
1,524 wordsThe purpose of this essay is to discuss the theme of loyalty within Fever Pitch and how Nick Hornby does so by use of humour, characterisation and setting. The genre of this novel is that of humour. Fever Pitch is a book that has no chapters but a series of match reports that fall into three time frames within the authors life childhood, adolescence and manhood. The time span ranges from 1968 to 1992 The novel is an autobiography about the author, Nick Hornby, a memoir of a life devoted to Arsen...
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A Walk In The Woods Chapter 9
1,022 wordsBill Bryson the author of the short story A Walk in the Woods constructs the story in a certain way to try to get the reader to accept his attitudes and values about how dangerous and death defying Earl V. Shaffer and others are in attempting to travel the trail. He uses the techniques of emotive language, unusual language and use of first hand accounts in the short story A Walk in the Woods. The use of descriptive and humorous language, combined with conversational text has allowed Bryson to ex...
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Sense Of Humour Robert Frost
503 wordsH 2 >Q. Describe the speaker of this poem and his values. Does he have a sense of humour? Describe his neighbours values. A. Robert Frost, the speaker of the poem, has portrayed himself as a reasonable, practical, open-minded and an unorthodox character. He has put himself before the readers as a personality who believes that in order to move on in life a change or a series of changes is necessary. The poet is a balanced character and whatever he says is logical. Robert Frost strongly be...
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Michael Moore Stupid White Men
849 wordsStupid White Men by Michael Moore I read the book 'Stupid White Men' by the American writer and filmmaker Michael Moore right after I had seen his documentary film 'Bowling for Columbine'. Its intelligent mixture of facts and the writer's unique humour turns this book into a stinging satire on American politics. Its dense sequence of information and its balance between in-depth explanations and overviews make this book hard to put down. With the following few extracts from the book I am going to...
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Amp Quot Iambic Pentameter
1,588 wordsIn order for a poem to be classified as a sonnet, it must meet certain structural requirements, and Sonnet 138, & quot; When my love swears that she is made of truth, & quot; is a perfect example. Shakespeare employs the traditional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, the poem is made up of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, and iambic pentameter is the predominant meter. However, it would be an error to approach this poem as a traditional Shakespearean love sonnet. It is a 'love' po...
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Itchy And Scratchy One Of The Most Important
4,142 wordsThe American animation The Simpsons is now in its 10 th season as a show in its own right. It was created by Matt Groening as shorts for the Tracy Ullman Show and was bought by the Fox Network, which began screening it as half-hour shows in 1989. Initially its success was restricted to the 9 - 16 year old age group, and for animation there is nothing remarkable about this. Its success grew quickly and it is now popular in many countries with many different audiences. In the 1990 s we are seeing ...
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Didnt Know Repeated Britannica 14 Th Ed Leacock
1,029 wordsCATS CRADLE Jonathan Swift has suggested that Satire is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every bodys Face their own; which is the chief reason that so few are offended with it. Richard Garnett suggests that, Without humour, satires invective; without literary form, [and] it is mere clownish jeering. (Encyclopaedia Britannica 14 th ed. vol. 20 p. 5). Whereas Swifts statement suggests that people are not offended by satire because readers identify the characters faults with...
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Mistaken Identity True Identity
821 wordsIn The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare creates humour through his characters by creating false realities (as demonstrated by Petruchio? s behaviour and attire in the scene of his wedding) and by the use of subterfuge and mistaken identity (shown in the final scenes with the transformation of Kate and Bianca? s respective personas). He also uses irony quite extensively, especially towards the end of the play (as can be seen in the final? wager? scene). The concept that? things are not always as ...
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Small Town Life Tragic Irony
1,925 wordsIronic Sketches of a Little Town It takes a certain type of character to see the humour in everyday life. It takes an even greater character to express the humour in ways that other people can appreciate and subsequently find gaiety therein. Stephen Leacock is such a character, and his compilation of short stories Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town recognizes, and assists the reader to recognize, ones need to laugh at their surroundings, their culture, and the people that interact in their lives...
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Sense Of Humour Strong Character
1,240 wordsIn James Herriot? s autobiographical book, If Only They Could Talk, we see that Herriot has many strong characteristics which help him through his tough, and oftentimes demanding, career. He has a vast knowledge of his practice, as well as his employer and friend, Seigfried Farnon. Herriot has a great sense of humour, and is able to take embarrassment excellently. He also works well in strange, or uncomfortable situations. One of his strong character traits is his adaptability, he is very flexib...
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Merchant Of Venice Sense Of Humour
769 wordsPortia, The Ideal Woman. When one thinks of something ideal one may think of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are. In Shakespeare? s play, The Merchant Of Venice, one of the major themes is appearance verses reality. In the play Portia is portrayed as the ideal woman. In the opening scene, Bassanio describes her as the Golden Fleece. Portia is truly the Golden Fleece: she is highly intelligent; she has a great sense of humour and she is able to keep her good values through t...
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East And West Mei Mother
1,970 wordsIn Foreign Bodies, although Hwee Hwee Tan explores what has been done before the blend of East and West, themes both light and serious the treatment has her own signature, and the political satire existing side by side with the Christian preaching is unique. The main effect that emerges is that of humour through the contradictions within each component and against each other, in the motley selection. Especially engaging is the expos on the cultural practices, idiosyncrasies and two-faceless of C...
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East And West Mei Mother
1,971 wordsIn Foreign Bodies, although Hwee Hwee Tan explores what has been done before? the blend of East and West, themes both light and serious? the treatment has her own signature, and the political satire existing side by side with the Christian preaching is unique. The main effect that emerges is that of humour through the contradictions within each component and against each other, in the motley selection. Especially engaging is the expos&execute; on the cultural practices, idiosyncrasies and two-fa...
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