Different types of Irony
Irony is...
What is when you the opposite happens from what you expected to happen?
Give an example of an idiom is...
What is... couch potato (a lazy person), top banana (the boss at a job), two peas in a pod (two people are inseparable)
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Give a synonym for "intelligent"...
What is...smart
The Greek root "bio" mean?...
What is...Life
The Latin root "aqua" means...
What is...water?
Situational irony is....
What is when the outcome of a situation is different than you expected it to be?
Alliteration is...
What is ...same consonant sound at the beginning of a series of words
Give a synonym for "fast"
what is...quick? speedy?
The Greek root "tele" refer to...
What is...distant, far away, far off
The Latin root "port" means...
What is... to carry, a harbor, haven?
Dramatic Irony is....
What is when you, the reader/viewer, know something the characters/someone else does not know?
Give an example of alliteration...
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Assonance differs from alliteration because...
What is...assonance is the same vowel sound in the middle or end of a series of written words, whereas alliteration is the same consonant sound at the beginning of a series of words.
Define the Greek root "auto"...
What is..self?
Explain the Latin root "duc"...
What is...to lead?
Give an example of situational irony....
a marriage counselor gets divorces
a fire station burns down
a police station gets robbed
Chocolate is my Kryptonite!
What type of literary device is being used in the above sentence?
Allusion. The sentence alludes to Superman because his weakness is Kryptonite and the author is saying their weakness is chocolate.
Give an example of assonance...
What is ... Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
The cat is out of the bag.
John so enjoyed the rain, ever time it was raining you could see him dancing in the rain.
The Greek root "graph" signifies...
What is...writing?
The Latin root "scrib" refer to...
What is...write?
Give an example of dramatic irony....
What is ... you say goodbye to a friend, but he walks away unaware of why people are looking at him in a funny way. You know something that he doesn't, but you're unable to tell him.
Define consonance and provide an example.
What is...consonance is the same consonant sound in the middle or end of a series of words.
Examples will vary
Determine the assonance in the following sentence.
Every afternoon Donay blows a balloon up to play with.
Every afternoon Donay blows a balloon up to play with.
-oon on noon and balloon
-y and -ay on every, Donay and play
Determine if the following example is an alliteration, consonance or assonance. Tell me how you know!
Farah is a big fan of the Ferris wheel.
it is an alliteration because of the use of the 'F's". It cannot be assonance or consonance because they occur in towards the middle and ends of words.
The Latin root for "Bene" is...
What is... good?