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2 days ago · Four Main Types of Irony. There are four numbers of main types of irony: Dramatic irony, Comic irony, Situational irony and Verbal Irony. Dramatic irony. It is also known as tragic irony, this is when an author lets their reader know about something that a character does not. For example, a man is going to attend a wedding party and he is much ...
4 days ago · Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ ˈ s ɒr ə n ˈ k ɪər k ə ɡ ɑːr d / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡ ɔːr /-gor, Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
- 11 November 1855 (aged 42), Copenhagen, Denmark
2 days ago · Socratic irony can be effective for character development. By having a character use Socratic irony, you can reveal additional layers of that character’s personality, intelligence, and motives. Example: The Mentor. Consider a mentor character who uses Socratic irony to teach the protagonist. The mentor might feign ignorance about a subject to ...
4 days ago · English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, are called Old English.
4 days ago · Overview. The nature of Wikipedia controversies has been analyzed by scholars. Sociologist Howard Rheingold says that "Wikipedia controversies have revealed the evolution of social mechanisms in the Wikipedia community"; a study of the politicization of socio-technical spaces remarked that Wikipedia "controversies ... become fully-fledged when they are advertised outside the page being debated ...
5 days ago · noun. the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) see more.
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