Chapter 4️⃣

Question 1

Verbal irony

Answer 1

Irony occurring when a speakers meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words

Question 2

Sarcasm

Answer 2

A type of irony that takes form as a mocking praise

Question 3

Structural irony

Answer 3

A type of irony that generates two layers of meaning one literal and one implied through the entire work

Question 4

Dramatic irony

Answer 4

A type of irony in which the reader is aware of the plot development of which the character of the story is unaware

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

The use of language to covey a meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

A type of obvious overstatement used by writers to make a point

Question 7

Understatement

Answer 7

The repetition of something as less important than it truly is

Question 8

Litotes

Answer 8

A form of understate the that expresses a positive statement by denying the opposite

Question 9

Satire

Answer 9

Corrective reticule of some sort of scorn usually outside of the literature itself

Question 10

Pun

Answer 10

A type of word play in which the author combines two words meanings with in a sentence

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

Brief phrases that combine contradictory elements for effect.