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 IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: VM (---.utep.edu)
Date:   11-04-04 12:34

Can anyone help me, I need to find irony in both "The Mask of Red Death" and "The Black Cat". Plz help! Thank you!!!
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 Re: IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: jenn (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date:   11-07-04 19:40

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Black Cat," the nameless narrator begins his horrifying tale by informing his readers that he is about to relate a "series of mere household events." [FN1] He then wonders if, in the future, when his morbid tale is discussed by others considering his case, they will find it to be "nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects." [FN2]

Considering the terrible conclusion of the story, this very opening establishes an ironic tone that continues until the end of the tale. The fact that the Narrator would even wonder if his horrible story would ever be considered a "series of mere household events," and the casual, almost off-handed way he contemplates his...
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 Re: IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: ryan hall (156.63.169.---)
Date:   11-19-04 13:31

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 Re: IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: el (205.204.242.---)
Date:   03-28-05 10:29

in any of his stories or his poems he expresses a form of uncertainy. Of course in his tales we know that there fiction but half fact, they tell a half and half input of his life and i think that is where his uncertainy comes from. take for instace the raven how much of the poem is is indeed fact and what is fiction. He wrote his peom after his wife died to me the raven repreasented his wfe.jenn wrote:
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 Re: IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: wade (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date:   04-18-05 19:23

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 Re: IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: jc (---.nas14.houston4.tx.us.da.qwest.net)
Date:   07-27-05 15:43

help need more information about The Masque of The Red Death
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 Re: IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: mark hoelzel (---.neenah.k12.wi.us)
Date:   09-20-05 12:34

no clue sorry
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 Re: IRONY in Poe's Stories...HELP PLZ!!
Author: cassandra (---.avenel01.nj.comcast.net)
Date:   10-23-05 14:56

i need help finding IRONY in the story angel of the odd..help me and i need it by today thanx bye
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