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| 5000522675 | Definition Verbal Irony | Is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says | 0 | |
| 5000522676 | Example Verbal Irony | "Great someone stained my new dress" | 1 | |
| 5000522677 | Definition Dramatic Irony | Occurs when the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of | 2 | |
| 5000522678 | Example Dramatic Irony | In a movie where a detective does not know that the criminal responsible for the crimes in the city is his partner | 3 | |
| 5000522679 | Definition Situational Irony | Involves a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens | 4 | |
| 5000592752 | Example Situational Irony | When someone buy a gun to protect himself, but the same gun is used by another individual to injure him | 5 | |
| 5000592753 | Definition Trope | The use of a word, phrase, or image in a way not intended by its normal significance. They are figures of speech with an unexpected twist in the meaning of words | 6 | |
| 5000592754 | Example Trope | Metaphors, smilie, and personification | 7 | |
| 5000592755 | Definition Scheme | A change in standard word order or pattern. They are figure of speech that deal with a word order, syntax, letters, sounds, rather than the meaning of a word | 8 | |
| 5000592756 | Example Scheme | Antithesis, asyndeton | 9 | |
| 5000592757 | Definition Colloquialism | The use of informal words, phrases or even slang to show region or character | 10 | |
| 5000592758 | Example Colloquialism | "I didn't want to go back no more. I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections... But by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I could't stand it. I was all over with welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days. It was dreadful lonesome" | 11 | |
| 5000592759 | Definition Catalogue | A traditional epic device consisting of a long rhetorical list or inventory | 12 | |
| 5000592760 | Example Catalogue | "The man married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner, the pilot seizes the king pin, he heaved down with a strong arm, the mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready, the duck shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches, the deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the alter the spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel... | 13 | |
| 5002283129 | Definition Invective | Speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution, usually involving negative emotional language | 14 | |
| 5002283130 | Example Invective | "I can't conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious Bergman that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth" | 15 | |
| 5002283131 | Definition Litotes | The writer used a statement in the negative to create the effect | 16 | |
| 5002283132 | Example Litotes | You know Einstein is not a bad mathematician | 17 | |
| 5002283133 | Definition Pathetic Fallacy | Personification in which a writer ascribes the human feelings of his or her characters to inanimate objects or non-human phenomena | 18 | |
| 5002283134 | Example Pathetic Fallacy | So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of a shipwreck and death. Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as K say form to read had been the worst of all | 19 | |
| 5002283135 | Definition Inversion | A literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis | 20 | |
| 5002283136 | Example Inversion | "Glistens the dew upon the morning grass" | 21 | |
| 5002283137 | Definition Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, Irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles. | 22 | |
| 5002283138 | Definition Horatian Satire | The voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker gently ridicules the absurdities | 23 | |
| 5002283139 | Example Horatian Satire | The onion is a fake news source that uses contemporary issues and highlights their absurdity. Some of the most popular headlines they've published include "the Supreme Court rules the Supreme Court rules" and "Clinton deploys vowels to Bosnia" | 24 | |
| 5002283140 | Definition Juvenalian Satire | The speaker attacks vice and error with contempt and indignation and harshness | 25 | |
| 5002283141 | Example Juvenalian Satire | South Park | 26 |
