Irony
List the 4 types of irony
What is: Situational Irony, Verbal Irony, Dramatic Irony, and Cosmic Irony?
The term for the issue at the center of a literary work.
What is Conflict?
What kind of novel is Frankenstein?
What is a Gothic Novel?
Orange World is a nest of live wires. It is a hand hovering over a drawer of steak knives
What is Metaphor?
The term for a group of lines in a poem
What is A Stanza?
In the play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony is grieving the loss of his friends who were murdered. He knows the murderers’ identities., but cannot reveal who the culprits were. In his speech. Through out his speech, Caesar frequently refers to the murders as “honorable men”.
What is Verbal Irony?
The character of Aunt Reed in Jane Eyre
The Crucible centers on the Salme Witch Tirals but also represents McCarthyism in the 1950s.
What is Allegory?
The term for contrasting images
What is Juxtaposition?
A type of poem with fourteen lines
What is A Sonnet?
At the ending of Romeo and Juliet, the audience has just watched Juliet take a sleeping potion. Believing his love to be dead, Romeo drinks poison beside Juliet.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The ending of The Handmaid’s Tale where Offred gets into the black van.
What is Resolution?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of a mischievous boy and his adventures on the Mississippi River.
What is Picaresque?
Lovely ladies laughing loudly.
What is Alliteration?
A type of poem without a set rhyme scheme or meter
What is a Free Verse?
In the short story “The Necklace”, the main character borrows a sparkly necklace from her friend to wear to a ball. Subsequently, she loses the necklace at the ball. Afraid to tell her friend of the loss, she buys a diamond necklace to replace it. She works for years to pay off this debt sacrificing her happiness and beauty. At the end of the story, when she finally tells her friend the truth, it is revealed that the original necklace was made of cheap, fake gems.
What is Situational Irony?
The part of The Raisin in the Sun where Walter reveals that he has lost the money
What is Climax?
The Misanthrope critiques the high society of seventeenth-century France.
What is Satire?
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
What is Parallelism? What is Paradox?
The term for lines that are punctuated at the end
What is End Stop?
Odysseus escaped imprisonment on an island only to encounter a sea monster
What is Situational Irony?
The beginning of the novel that describes Victor Frankenstein’s childhood and upbringing.
What is Exposition?
Code Name Verity tells the story of two women’s experience of World War II through an exchange of letters
What is Epistolary?
Her art studio was organized chaos with piles of paints, canvases, and brushes scattered through out the room.
What is Oxymoron?
The term for lines that flow into eachother without punctuation
What is Enjambment?