What is personification?
A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
What is a simile?
Comparing two things using like or as.
Who is the father of Gothic Literature?
Edgar Allen Poe
If a professional stunt driver crashes into a tree on their way home from receiving a "best driver" award
What type of irony is it?
Situational
This type of Irony is most used in everyday conversation.
Verbal Irony
What is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language and the earliest piece of vernacular(spoken) European literature?
Beowulf
French author remembered as a master of the short-story form. Their stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient denouements(dramatic structure), writes about class barriers and was a naturalist. They were against the Eiffel Tower.
Guy De Maupassant
What type of irony do we see in "The Cask of Amontillado"? Explain.
Verbal and Dramatic
When Montressor tells him to consider his cough and Fortunato says I won't die of a cough...yea but he'll die from something else.
Dramatic - we know that Fortunato is about to die but Fortunato doesn't know
This type of irony deprives an important piece of information that governs the plot.
Dramatic Irony
"I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I this tiny little tumor on my brain."
Is this an ironic UNDERstatement or an ironic OVERstatement?
Ironic UNDERstatement
What was Mme. Loisel's motivation in replacing the necklace? What does this say about her?
Her motivation was not to look poor and like she had lost Mme. Forestier necklace and couldn't replace it. It says that she ultimately cares a lot about what people think.
Explain the irony at the end of "The Necklace".
She worked hard diminishing her beauty for a beautiful fake necklace.
How a story unfolds, how a story is presented, how events are presented to the audience.
This is called what?
Plot
_____irony occurs when character's intentions are foiled, when people do certain things to bring about an intended result, but in fact produce the opposite result.
Situational
The universal lessons and ideas that we draw from our experiences in works of art. Part of the reason anyone would want to pick up a book in the first place.
Theme
My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold
And his eyes are lit with laughter
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled
Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him
My own dear love, he is all my world
And, I'd wish I'd never met him
WHAT TYPE OF IRONY IS THIS?
Situational
What is a metaphor?
The theme is revealed when?
By the end of the story.
"Friendly as a rattlesnake"
What type of irony is being used?
Verbal
You win $5 in a lottery where the grand prize is $100 million. A friend asks you if you won anything and you say "Yeah, total jackpot!"
Is this an ironic OVERstatement, ironis UNDERstatement or Hyperbole
Ironic OVERstatement
Writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices and overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, fear, and dread.
Gothic Literature
She is dead and no longer able to drink the wine of human love.
What technique is being used here? Explain
Metaphor
drinking wine being compare to experiencing love without using like or as
The storm shook the land with endless thunder.
What technique is being used. Explain
Hyperbole
The storm is not endless it must end sometime.
What is a hyperbole?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
"I'm so tired, I could sleep for a million years!"
Is this an ironic overstatement or a hyperbole?