Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Gift of the Magi // Irony

Today students took a short reading quiz on Schoology over the short story "Gift of the Magi". Please see me to make it up if you missed it.

Then, we discussed the twist the O. Henry reveals in the climax of the story - how the couple's purchased gifts are each rendered beautiful but useless by the other's sacrifice. It's not what the audience expects, and therefore it's...
Ironic
This is a link to the slides on Irony that I shared with the students. They recorded these notes in their English Composition Notebooks.

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