Irony
Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal
What are the three types of irony?
A type of figurative language in which an author gives non-human objects human abilities or qualities. For example, "the leaf danced with the wind."
What is personification?
an educated guess made by a reader based on information from the text
What is an inference?
a dramatic element where one character briefly talks to another character or the audience without being heard by all of the characters on stage.
What is an aside?
This purpose of this literary element is to create suspense or increase tension in a story.
What is a dramatic irony?
A comparison of two or more unlike things that continues throughout the entire text or a long piece of a text. For example, Martin Luther King compares the constitutions promises to money related things such as "a promissory note," "a check," and "insufficient funds" over a period of several paragraphs.
What is an extended metaphor?
This term mean how the author develops information about characters. It can be directly or indirectly developed by an author.
What is characterization?
A message about life or big understanding that can be found in multiple texts.
What is a universal theme?
The author's attitude towards the subject. Examples might include: judgmental, disappointed, playful, humorous, or persuasive.
What is tone?
This is a term used by authors to provide comic relief or to show a contrast of ideas. An example would be when a friend asks another friend to come over to her house to meet her new dog. The friend comes over and makes fun of the dog unknowingly by saying he saw "odd looking dog" running around her neighborhood and her new dog "must be cuter than that dog." The new dog owner tells the friend that the "odd looking dog" was her new dog.
What is situational irony?
A literary device that compares one thing to another without using like or as. Rather this type of literary device says one thing is something else. An example would be "What light from yonder window breaks? Tis the East, and Juliet is the sun"
What is a metaphor?
This term is when an author explicitly states information about a character. An example would be calling a character "mean" by coming out an saying he or she is mean in the story.
What is direct characterization?
An element of the plays (dramas) that tells what actions are taking place on stage, as well as character's movements, emotions, and motivations.
What are stage directions?
The way an author intends to make the audience feel. Usually, setting, dialogue and plot events contribute to the development of this literary term.
What is mood?
A literary device similar to sarcasm where the author actually means something different than what is actually said. For example, a person falls during a dance routine and someone shouts "Nice job, grace!"
What is verbal irony?
A short phrase where opposites words are put together to make a point or show a contrast. An example would be "Oh loving hate!"
What is an oxymoron?
When an author helps the reader understand the characteristics of a character through words, actions, and feelings. For example, and author might tell about a teacher who stormed into the classroom and slammed the door and told the students to "be quiet" in a loud voice. You'd probably be able to guess that the teacher was angry.
What is indirect characterization?
Three ways readers can learn about characters.
What are dialogue, description (direct characterization), character actions?
A good persuasive or argument piece of writing must contain these three elements.
What are claim, counterclaim, and evidence. (in any order)
One example from Romeo and Juliet comes early in Act V, the audience knows that Juliet is not dead, but instead sleeping. Romeo does not know what the audience knows.
What is (an example of) dramatic irony?
A type of figurative language where an author references another work-- a song, poem, or book-- to help make his point clearer.
What is an allusion?
Based on this information a reader can make an educated guess that ______________ is about to happen if they read about balloons, cake, and party favors being given out at someone's house.
What is a party?
The rhetorical (speech) device used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in the following lines from his "I Have a Dream" speech: "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed."
What is parallelism?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted to challenge people in the audience to make sure civil rights were granted to all citizens of the United States of America. (hint: what does this statement represent?)
What was the purpose of MLK's speech? (will also accept main idea or central idea)