Aesthetic Aspects of the novel "Decline of Colonel" by Khodabakhsh Asadollahi, Leila Azarnivar

“…While introducing and presenting the summary of the story, the most used aesthetic elements include simile, metaphor, irony, imagination, recognition, symbol, allusion, etc. …”
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The Expression of the North/South Conflict in Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, 1956): Western Conventions and Southern Motifs, Subversion and Satire by Gilles Menegaldo

“…Tourneur does exploit, with a tinge of irony, a romanticized vision of Southern culture, denouncing the hypocrisy and fanaticism of the Unionists while he emphasizes the idealistic stance of the Southerners.…”
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The study of Postmodern Language Components in the Story "Passing again through the Same Streets" by Bijan Najdi by Abdollah Hasanzadeh mirali, Ghazaleh Heidari Abkenar

“…It can be argued that, in addition to the fact that the presence of these components together, suggests the postmodernism of this work, the rhetorical elements have also added to the poeticism in the form of exaggeration and irony indices.…”
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Linguistic methods of personality identification in the fiction text (using S.D. Dovlatov's works) by A.V. Bastrikov, E.M. Bastrikova

“…Special attention has been paid to the lexical expressive means: epithets, metaphors, comparisons, oxymoron, irony, paradox, etc. Such language-game techniques as anecdote, pun, and parody have been revealed by the analysis. …”
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Duiliu Zamfirescu (I) by Eugen Simion

“…Caragiale, he dislikes the latter’s skepticism and irony, and especially the triviality. Duiliu Zamfirescu is found to be a complicated spirit, an amount of contradictions. …”
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Deviation in the Poetry of Mushfiq Kāshānī by Mrayam Khalili Jahantigh, Tara Mohammadi

“…It can be classified as semantic deviation (which explores metaphor, metonymy, irony and synesthesia) and combinative deviation (which examines the textual elements such as vocabulary, syntax, phonetics, writing style, and dialect). …”
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THE MEANING OF SEMANTIC ANALYSIS WITHIN SONG’S LYRICS “A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS” ALBUM BY COLDPLAY by Lilis Sholihah

“…Specifically, the figurative language which found in lyrics a head full of dreams album , there are 1 metaphor, 2 similes, 2 symbol, 2 hyperboles and 1 irony. Then, the five song lyrics in a head full of dreams album by Coldplay tell us about human social life which contained about love, sadness, happiness, spirit and adventure of life.   …”
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Investigation and analysis of rhetorical functions of Epithet in Khaghani's Odes by Mahammad Hossein Esmaeli, Mahammad Khakpour, Ibrahim Ranjbar

“…In Khaghani's poems, Epithet has been used to create metaphor, simile, repetition, irony, allusion, ambiguity, exaggeration, harmony, paradox, personification, syllogism and pun. …”
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Reverent Induction: Epistemology and the Romantic Education of the Child Reader in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) by Laura H. Clarke

“…One way he does this is to model the process of analogical reasoning for the child reader in order to challenge the assumptions of empirical philosophy and the other is to use irony and wit to satirize what he sees as the nonsensical structure of deductive reason. …”
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Theatrical Colours: Cosmetics, Rhetoric and Theatre in Webster’s The White Devil by Natascha WANNINGER

“…Because it combined optical and rhetorical colour, the stage therefore came to be a particularly contentious institution at which similar arguments were often levelled.Through an examination of the three major female characters in The White Devil, Isabella, Zanche and Vittoria, this paper illustrates the way in which these attacks are defused and become the objects of the author’s irony. As females, these characters have a unique relationship with colour because their (alleged) use of cosmetics and thus the authenticity of their skin colour ultimately determines their standing within society. …”
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FABRIKASI DAN PENGUJIAN TELAPAK KAKI PALSU JENIS SINGLE AXIS by Christianus Pigun Wardoyo, Muslim Mahardika, Suyitno Suyitno, Rini Dharmastiti, Urip Agus Salim, Budi Arifvianto

“…Along with the increasing number of persons with disabilities, the need for prosthetic foot has also increased. However, the irony is that some of the products circulating in Indonesia are still imported from abroad, while the domestic product is quite limited and possesses some drawbacks. …”
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A Study of Social Class Conflict in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. by Atukunda, Atubangiire

“…The study highlights how Austen uses satire and irony to address the moral limitations of the class system and to propose a more flexible social order. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…Loop of Jade explores the experience of cultural hybridity and deracination through an intertextual poetics predicated on artifice and irony, going against the grain of a simple, unmediated confessional poetic narrative “of the origins.” …”
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Constructing competing discourses on the Russo-Ukrainian war: journalistic translation in wartime by Angela Kamyanets

“…Regarding dialogicality, one author structures his text as an implied dialogue with hypothetical opponents, employing rhetorical questions, imperative sentences, irony, and first-person narration, whereas the other author references individuals with institutional authority to validate his assertions. …”
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Tradiția literară și teatrală a absurdului by Mirela Mihaela Doga

“…Fourth, the grotesque, directly imported from baroque, is reshaped by Albert Camus to an extent that its limits are much wider. Irony, previously used to amuse, is now a tool to question certainties and possibilities. …”
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The Study of Verbal Impoliteness in the Users’ Comments of Sahamyab Stock Market Website According to Culpeper’s Theory by Shahram Naghshbandi, Hossein Razavian, Hossein Ariyaeefar

“…Mock politeness turned out second with almost 26.4%, in the form of sarcasm, irony, metaphor, and so-called dishonest politeness indicating that preserving own face when insulting others is a priority to a large number of people. …”
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METAMODERNISM MAN IN THE WORLDVIEW DIMENSION OF NEW CULTURAL PARADIGM by Y. O. Shabanova

“…Proceeding from this, the fate of a metamodernism man is determined in pursuit of the endlessly receding horizons of the anthropology of incompleteness, which is carried out through post-irony, naive sincerity, optimistic openness to the world.…”
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Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

“…The author concludes that, despite all the irony, Vonnegut’s novel is not only humanistic, but also deeply Christian, and develops, but already at a modern level, the educational mission that is characteristic of the US literature.…”
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'A journey around his room': Genre uniqueness of I.A. Goncharov's novel 'Oblomov' by L.A. Sapchenko

“…The most important of the results obtained is the following: the tradition of sentimental travel, with its reduction of the external space, minimization of movement and actualization of the inner world, with irony characteristic of the Sternian variety of sentimentalism, turns out to be kindred to Goncharov. …”
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Jacobean Morality and Moral Performativity in Volpone and Women Beware Women by Gül Kurtuluş

“…Volpone, Mosca and the three legacy hunters create their self-deceit with a natural tendency towards greed, hypocrisy and disguise which also reveal their corrupt morality and the dramatic irony in the play. The play conveys serious criticism of society such as Corvino’s offering his innocent and chaste wife to Volpone to reach his legacy and, also the bad treatment of women. …”
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