For the Love of Irony
hat is the repetition of initial consonant sounds?
What is alliteration?
A struggle between opposing forces. Characters in conflict from the basis of stories, novels, and plays.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A difference between what is said and what is meant.
Example: Oh, goody! It's time to do my homework.
This makes a comparison between two are more things that are similar in some way s but otherwise unalike?
A means by which authors present material that occurred earlier than the present tense of the narrative. This may include a character’s memories, dreams, or accounts or past events.
This is the descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures are created to details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell or movement.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
When there is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows is true this is called?
What Dramatic irony?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
Example: He was no Michael Jordan, but he could shoot a basketball.
The use of clues that suggest events that have yet to happen.
The deliberate description of something in a way that makes it seem less important than it actually is.
What is an understatement?
She acts like Scrooge, and will never enjoy even the simple pleasures of life.
Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.
An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters and the reader.
A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. These words or statements lead to vagueness and confusion and shape the basis for instances of unintentional humor.
An expression that is characteristic of a language, region, community, or class of people. These expressions often arise from figures of speech and therefore cannot be understood literally.
1. Man vs. Man (external)
2. Man vs. Nature (external)
3.Man vs. Self (internal)
Example: Jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron
1. Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
2. The audience knows that a killer is hiding in the closet, but the girl in the horror movie does not.
3.A student studies for days for an English test, but sleeps in the morning of the test, shows up late for class, and fails the test.
What is dramatic irony?
What is situational irony?
This refers to an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty.
What is a cliché?
A logical conclusion is drawn based on the evidence that we have available in the text.
The sequence of events in a literary work.
What are the five main elements of this literary term?
1. Exposition / Introduction
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution
"Shh…" Dale whispered to his friend Jim. Jim stopped talking mid-sentence and looked at Dale. Dale was dressed in a fluorescent orange sweater with the hood up and a camouflage vest over the sweater. He saw Dale point his rifle at the horizon and squint, and then Jim looked where the barrel was aimed. A large 10-point buck trotted about thirty meters from the bushes behind which Jim and Dale were positioned.
What are Jim and Dale doing in the bushes?
Why does Dale shush Jim?
What event is most likely to occur next?
What literary term is this an example of?
They are hunting.
Dale thinks that Jim will scare the animal if he continues talking.
Dale is going to shoot at the buck.
What is an inference?