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"I made a remark a long time ago, I said I was very pleased that television was now showing murder stories, because it's bringing murder back into its rightful setting-in the home." Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock’s run-on sentence is one factor that eventually makes his irony so powerful at the end of the sentence. The run-on sentence allows Hitchcock to get his point across quickly and brings together his opinions from two different time frames. The beginning of the sentence deals with a remark Hitchcock made many years ago, while the end deals with present day issues in a very comedic way. It seems that after the television started showing murder stories there might have been an increased level in crime.(?)

Another technique Hitchcock uses to ensure his ironic tone is the use of the hyphen. The sentence is generally somewhat long and by the time the reader gets to the hyphen it forces him to pause or slow down to understand the humor at the end of the sentence. As I first read this sentence, I was not expecting the type of ending I received. The hyphen essentially connects a very powerful phrase to the end of the sentence that was not expected to be there.


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