Sarcasm

“Mewling. vomiting babies. That’s the manner we all start. ” is how Jean Shepherd started on his authorship named “The Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night. and the Tinfoil Noose” shows of prose usage sarcasm and symbolism to underscore similar subjects. viz. the tenseness between the narrator’s ignorance during of a vernal yesteryear versus the…

One aspiration that many women share is a desire to be beautiful inside and out. Often it is believed that with beauty come feelings of acceptance, confidence and even some forms of happiness. Unfortunately for the majority “a desirable woman doesn”t look lie a real woman looks; thus, one of the basic physical markers of…

Although comedy and sarcasm are similar literary manners, they aggressively contrast in a few cardinal countries. These cardinal differences are clear in a comparing of the comedic short narrative The Night the Bed Fell, by James Thurber, and the satiric Marrying Absurd, by Joan Didion. Broadly defined, a comedy can be is a work picturing…

Children universally grow-up with stories of “Once upon a time.. ” and “Happily ever after.. ” and with the conception that you will meet a partner, fall in love, and live happily ever after. Margaret Atwood challenges this conception in her short story “Happy Endings”. “Happy Endings” is satirical because it mocks the common misconception…

INTRODUCTION             Sharon Olds  is a famous poet of modern times who writes her poem with themes , usually personal, with great intensity that explore violence, sensuality, family and the physical body. She was born in San Francisco in 1942 and grew up in Berkeley, California.  She studied in Stanford University and got her Ph….

The author started the story by describing the two nipa houses. But if you go back to his introduction after reading the story, you would realize that these adjectives were pertaining to the two main characters, Aling Biang and Aling Sebia. ” They were two separate worlds, two opposing planets so near together that their…

The U.S and U.K are two different countries that happen to have more than one difference besides the common language, English. There are a lot of other cultural, social and economical aspects differing the two. The history of America and The U.K is linked which is why there are a lot of similarities. Although Britain…