Literary devices are important in short stories because in the story, it will help the readers understand things that may of happened, or irony with an object that is important to the character. By doing this, it helps the readers to understand the character more and their back story. If the writer didn’t show anything from the past when he was trying to add flashbacks then it will come across differently to the reader depending on the readers out take and their personal experience. Flashbacks are an interruption of an event or chronological sequence to insert past events or background context that relates to the current event. Flashbacks are important in the story to help the readers understand why the character or the character’s are doing …show more content…
Kenton thinks this is a bad idea and doesn’t want her to go into the tunnel because of the magical creatures inside. Elizabeth goes into the tunnel well Kenton waits for her on the other side. Kenton remembers what he has seen in that tunnel when he was younger. The author puts that Kenton remembers what happened to him and all about the magical creatures, and by doing that, he explains why Kenton very badly doesn’t want Elizabeth to go into the tunnel. The author portrays a good use of flashback by helping the reader understand what Kenton did and why he feels that way about Elizabeth going into the tunnel. In the short story “The Skating Party” by Merna Summers in the book Sightlines 10, the author uses flashbacks by Maida the main character’s uncle Nathan. Nathan Singleton was suppose to get married a few years ago when his to be wife and her sister went skating on a pond in their yard. The ice was broken, but the sisters didn’t know that so they went skating in it. The ice broke and both sisters fell. They grabbed onto the side and couldn’t get up. Nathan went to save them, but only had time to save one sister. One sister, Nathan’s wife …show more content…
Dramatic Irony is when the irony that is in speeches or text is expressed through a workable structure. The audience knows what’s happening, but the character themselves do not know what’s happening or what’s going to happen. The character is unaware that this is happening, but the readers know how this story will lay out. In the story “The Bicycle” by Jillian Horton, Hannah is a young girl who loves to play piano. Hannah’s aunt, Tante Rose knows how to play so she says that she will teach Hannah how to play but she must obey her aunts rules. One of her aunts rules is that Hannah cannot ride a bike. Hannah has never ridden a bike and all of her friends have, and Hannah wants to ride a bike. The author uses dramatic irony because the readers know that Hannah will ride a bike at some point in her life. The author makes the dramatic irony important because if the author didn’t tell us that Hannah has never ridden a bike, we wouldn’t know why she would want to ride one so badly. This is dramatic irony instead or irony because irony is when the readers expect something to happen and it turns out the opposite way. In this story the reader knows that Hannah will ride the bike and Hannah ends up riding the bike at the end of the story. If Hannah didn’t ride the bike the story would not have ended like it did and then the author would have used ironically. In the short story “The Possibility Of Evil” by Shirley Jackson,
In conclusion, Flashbacks can be used to provide the reader with background information and show the characters motivation. Flashbacks lead the reader to wonder what's going on in the mind of the character throughout the story. Hillenbrand uses these flashbacks so the reader can better understand the story and Louie as a
Irony also appears in The Story of an Hour. The Story of an Hour is about a woman named Mrs. Louise Mallard who has heart trouble and thinks that her husband has died on a horrifying train accident. She initially starts crying when she hears the news of her husbands death. Afterwards she goes to her room and is still weeping but she stops. She stops because she 's looking out the window and all she can see is being free. "Free, free, free!"(116). Though her husbands death truly saddens her all she can think about is being free and all the wonderful years she 'll have just by herself. She knows that she often felt love from her husband but she conveniences herself that none of that matters anymore. All that matters now is the independence she 'll have now that her husband has passed away. This part of the story is describing situational irony. What she doesn’t know is that her husband hasn’t died in that train accident. He never got on that train. Mr. Mallard didn’t even know that there had been an accident. Mrs. Mallard not knowing this is still hopeful that she will be independent and even prays for a long life ahead of her. As she 's walking down the stairs with her sister Josephine, her husbands friend Richards waiting. The door starts to creak open, its her husband Mr. Mallard. Richards knowing of Mrs. Mallards heart condition quickly runs to block her view of him but he 's unsuccessful.
During the story the author uses flashbacks to provide background information and to build a mood. Such as the author says in that text “But normalcy was about to go flying out the window and it hasn’t been seen here since” this flashback shows how finn's dad died. Also builds a sad mood to make the reader feel bad for finn and his family.
Dramatic Irony is when you know something the main character doesn’t. This is seen a lot in horror movies. Like when the character runs into a room or into a hallway and they can’t see the killer but he
In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Demetrius responds to the horrible workingmen’s play by saying,” A very best at a beast,my lord, that e’er I saw” (Shakespeare 5.1.217-218). This quote is a perfect example of verbal irony because the horrible acting of Snug the lion couldn’t have been the best Demetrius has ever seen. Verbal irony is just one of the three types of irony. The other two types of irony are dramatic irony and situational irony. For my examples I will only be using dramatic irony and situational. Dramatic irony is when the audience or other characters knows something other characters don't. Situational irony is when the opposite of what you expect happens. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream depends on the uses of these ironies to instill comedy and advance the story.
Ok so irony is basically the twist the dramatic events in a movie,tv show,and plays mostly all movies have irony in them. Heres a type of irony my favorite dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the characters doesn't know. Like Romeo and Juliet, when juliet takes the medicine to make her go into a deep sleep, Romeo thought Juliet died so he drank poison and when juliet saw Romeo on the ground dead she took Romeos knife and killed herself. So that's dramatic irony.
To begin with, situational irony is when what happens in a scene is the opposite of what the character expects. For example, the setting of the story is during Carnival, a time of celebration and fun, except that the situation that one of the main characters, Fortunato, finds himself in is anything but. This combined with Fortunato’s court jester costume, contrast with the mood of the story, giving it a full 180, going from cheerful to ghastly. These two examples of irony help create suspense, highlight the truth, and serve as foreshadow to the story.
2.In what way are the flashbacks in the story significant for the character development? What purpose does it serve? Do you think it is an effective method for what the author may be trying to achieve? Why or why not?
There are many instances where dramatic irony adds suspense to the plot. In Scene One, Romeo tries to avoid a fight between Tybalt and himself, because he is now married to Tybalt’s cousin, Juliet. Romeo’s lines may seem cryptic to Tybalt, who doesn’t know about the marriage, but to the reader, they make sense. Romeo’s “reason to love” (III.i.65) Juliet’s cousin is that he is now related to Tybalt, and it wouldn’t be pleasant for Juliet to find out that two men she loves would willingly fight each other to their death. Romeo is smart to try and stay away from a fight, and correct in saying Tybalt “knowest [him] not” (III.i.68). Because the marriage is a secret, Tybalt does not know that his enemy is referencing it, but the reader does know. This causes the dramatic irony, or the audience knowing something a character does not. Even though Romeo tries to stop any fight between Tybalt and himself, a brawl ensues, and Romeo ends up killing Tybalt, which leads to another example of dramatic irony. In Scene Two, Juliet is daydreaming about her night with Romeo. She is very excited and happy, unknowing of the fact that Romeo has just killed her cousin. The audience is aware of Romeo’s crime, which causes dramatic irony. A final example of this literary device is in Scene Four of Act Three, when Lady Capulet talks to Juliet about Tybalt and his killer. Lady Capulet doesn’t know that Juliet is married to Romeo, but the audience does. Juliet's lines have double meaning therefore, and are interpreted differently by the reader and Lady Capulet. Juliet tells her mother she “will not marry” (III.iv.122) and that if she ever does, “it shall be Romeo” (III.iv.123) she gets married to. Her mother thinks this means it is improbable Juliet will ever willingly get married. The reader knows that Juliet twists the words, so that she is not lying nor exaggerating, because she has already
One example of dramatic irony is when Oedipus is looking for the killer of the king Laius-his father. The irony here is that he is looking for himself because he is the murder of his father. Oedipus knows that he killed someone, but what he does not know is that it was Laius, the one he murder. Oedipus wants to punish the person who killed Laius, but we, the audience know that Oedipus was the one who killed Laius. Also Oedipus married Jocasta without knowing that she is his mother. We, the audience knew that he was Jocasta's son, but he was unaware of that.
The dramatic irony in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is what makes this breathtaking performance so savoring. Even though we know what to expect, the expectations are through the roof. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters in the play don't. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony during this play to have the audience welcome catharsis. Catharsis is the process of releasing strong repressed emotions normally experienced at the end of an act. Throughout the play, Shakespeare takes the audience on an emotional storm then ties up loose ends while making it a lively experience.
Dramatic irony: “The quality exhibited in words spoken by a character in a play or narrative who, because of his ignorance of present
Shakespeare’s play is full of dramatic irony. For example he demonstrates dramatic irony when romeo drank the poison potion and dies. Romeo believes that juliet dies but the audience does not. That shows dramatic irony.
Flashbacks are an apparatus where the screenwriter gives the pursuer and gathering of people with visual data that he or she can't consolidate into the screenplay whatever other way. The reason for the flashback is straightforward. It is a method that extends the time, place and activity. Likewise it uncovers data about the character, or propels the story. Ordinarily, an essayist tosses a flashback into the screenplay in light of the fact that he or she doesn't know how to advance the story some other way. Now and again, the screenwriter chooses to show something about the principle character. It could be better expressed in dialog, and, all things considered, the flashback just attracts consideration regarding itself and gets to be meddling. That doesn't work.
Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the characters do not. Again we see this type of irony when the family is sitting around the fire talking about their futures. At this point in the story the reader has problem figured out that the family will not make it. This makes the family, particularly the children talking about their future goals ironic as they will not have any future. The changes in “fate” also show dramatic irony. If the guest had gone faster on his journey then he would not have stopped at the families home, and he would have lived. Likewise if the travlers that came late at night would have been quieter the father might have let them in and they would have