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…
something that way or feels that way. In the story “The Tunnel” by Sarah Ellis in the book Sightlines 10, Kenton doesn’t want to play Barbie’s, when he is babysitting Elizabeth. Kenton suggests they go for a walk. On the walk Kenton sees his friends by a tunnel, which he knows very well, and stops to talk to them. Well, talking to them Kenton’s friends dare Kenton to go into the tunnel like he did when he was young. Kenton says no and Elizabeth ‘Ib’ says she will go in the tunnel instead.
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…
to be, was wearing no fur on her wrist and her sister had fur on her wrist. Nathan knew this and he help one of the young lady’s out of the water, letting the other one to drown. Nathan knew whom he had pulled up and he helps his wife to be’s sister, Eunice. Nathan remembers this when Maida asks why her uncle Nathan was not married and why. The author uses flashback to answer the question the character asked and to help explain to the reader what had happened and why he feels that way. Dramatic Irony is used by a lot of writers in short stories.
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,
uses dramatic irony because Miss Strangeworth always wrote these letters to people in town with the worst possible outcome of something. The readers know what goes around comes around, and miss Strangeworth on having time till someone found out she was the one writing all these letters to the people making them feel sad, mad, and depressed or scared. Miss Strangeworth thought no one would ever find out who it was because she was very careful when sending out the letters. The readers knew that one day someone would catch her sending out all these letters, but Miss Strangeworth didn’t know that. This is something the reader knows that the characters do not. At the end of the book Miss Strangeworth was caught sending out the letters when the boys seen that Miss Strangeworth dropped a letter when mailing them so they personally delivered it and told the person that the letter was from Miss Strangeworth. After one person knew that the whole town would know. That was a good use of dramatic irony because only people who have experienced that or seen something like that happen would think of that at the beginning of the story. The simile is used by a lot of authors. A simile is a speech or paragraph that uses or makes a comparison to show two different meanings. A simile uses the words like or as which makes it a direct comparison. In the short story “Earthquake” by Jack Hodgins, the author makes a direct comparison. In the story there is an earthquake which starts the story. In the story they use a simile by the author comparing an object to the effects of the earthquake. “The electric poles whipped back and forth like fly-fisherman’s rods and the wires hopped, low like skipping ropes and snapped tight like a clear-sang. The author used a simile to describe how the poles and wires looked and how they acted. Without the author putting that we wouldn’t have as great of a description and wouldn’t know what it looked like. We as the reader wouldn’t understand it as easy and wouldn’t be able to create a visual image. In the story “Lather And Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez, the author uses similes to compare the weather and the devil. “It’s as hot as the devil, I want a shave.” When the author saying that he is says to the guy that the devil lives in h*ll and it’s hot up there, the saying burn in h*ll, and that it’s a really hot summer day. He compares temperature with a saying that he believes is true and the heat from the sun. Without these literary devices these short stories would not have ended like they did and the readers wouldn't understand them as much or easily as they do now. That would cause a different perspective on the book than the writer implied. These are some of the reasons why literacy devices are important and this is how the short story uses them.
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
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.
Use of Flashbacks in Toni Morrison’s Novel, Beloved. Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved swims like a garden pond full of minnows with thoughts and memories of days gone by. Each memory is like a drop of water, and when one person brings up enough drops, a trickle of a stream is formed. The trickles make their way down the shallow slopes and inclines, pushing leaves, twigs, and other barriers out of the way, leaving small bits of themselves behind so their paths can be traced again.
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
Irony is a useful device for giving stories many unexpected twists and turns. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," irony is used as an effective literary device. Situational irony is used to show the reader that what is expected to happen sometimes doesn't. Dramatic irony is used to clue the reader in on something that is happening that the characters in the story do not know about. Irony is used throughout Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" through the use of situational irony and the use of dramatic irony.
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 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
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.
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?
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.
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
Dramatic irony: “The quality exhibited in words spoken by a character in a play or narrative who, because of his ignorance of present
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.
Defined by Dictionary.com dramatic irony is “irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience, but not grasped by the characters in the play” (“dramatic irony”). This type of irony is one that is not seen by characters, but is known to the reader. Towards the end of the story Josephine begs for Mrs. Mallard to open up the door and let her in, as she is afraid her sister is making herself ill (Chopin 201). This is dramatic irony as Josephine does not realize that her sister is not actually making herself ill, but is instead rejoicing in her husband’s death. Another instance at the conclusion of the story, Mr. Brently Mallard enters through the door, Richards quickly tries to block him from Mrs. Mallard seeing (Chopin 201). Richards assumes that Mrs. Mallard is still grieving from her husband’s death. He shields her from seeing Mr. Brently Mallard as he knows it will too much emotion. The dramatic irony is Richards does not realize that she is happy and blocking her view of her husband will make her upset, but only because Brently being alive means her freedom is