Class 6 Comp 2 August 31 Assignment 1: Read Richard Cory and answer the questions at the end of that poem. The responses are due in writing at the beginning of Class 7, which is September 7. Assignment 2: Read the Lottery and Answer the Questions at the end of the Story. This assignment is…
Category: Irony
Robert Frost’s Mending Wall and Irony Class 6
Class 4: August 24 Assignment 1: Read Robert Frost’s Mending Wall and Answer the Questions Your Response is due at the beginning of Class 5, which is August 29. Mending Wall by Robert Frost – Irony in Literture
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin – Focus on Situational Irony – Setting, & Character
Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-2018) Ursula K . LeGuin is most strongly associated with the genres of fantasy and science fiction….She is perhaps best remembered for her Earthsea fantasy novels (1968-2001) and for her Hainish series of science fiction works (1966-2000). The following story, ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,’ is a good starting point…
Richard Cory by Edward Arlington Robinson – Focus on Situational Irony and Character
Richard Cory BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good-morning,”…
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry – Situational Irony
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such…
Mending Wall by Robert Frost – Irony in Literture
Mending Wall BY ROBERT FROST Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not…
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson – Focus on Theme
“The Lottery” (1948) by Shirley Jackson The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock;…