Irony - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CSET English Subtest I and II (2023/2024) Graded A homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings and spelling. example: capital (seat of the government) and capitol (government building) Homonyms words that are spelled and pronounced the same,yet have a different meaning Ex. Tear-when you cry tear-when something rips Homographs words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) . Prepositional Phrase a g...

Oedipus the king questions and answers already passed What is the dramatic purpose of the prologue? The dramatic purpose of the prologue is that it gives the audience and characters the reasons why the city of Thebes suffers from the plague. They say the reason for the plague is the unsolved mystery of the death of the city's previous sovereign, Theban King Laius. The prologue also explains how the plague will end. They say the only way to end the plague is to identify and kill the ki...

misinformation - information with unattended inaccuracy (silly mistakes) disinformation - deliberately false/misleading information (purpose) satire - uses exaggeration/irony/absurdity to amuse parody - form of satire. Exaggerates noble features culture jamming - repurposes advertising to critique corp. culture

An Inspector Calls Quotes and Analysis UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers BIRLING: unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable. (Referring to the Titanic) Act One - CORRECT ANSWER- Priestley's love of dramatic irony is biting here, and his irony is never more satirical than in these comments of Birling's, which, to his original audience in 1946, must have seemed more controversial than they do today because the sinking of the ship was within people's memory. Symbolically, just as ...

Donaldson English Fall Final Exam With 100% Correct And Verified Answers 2024 indirect characterization - Correct Answer-a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly direct characterization - Correct Answer-a method of describing the character in a straightforward manner: through their physical description, their line of work, and their passions and outside pursuits. verbal irony - Correct Answer-a statement in which the speaker's wor...

Absolute - Answer-a word free from limitations or qualifications ("best," "all," "unique," "perfect") Accismus - Answer-a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refusesomething he or she desires Acronym - Answer-a word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word Acrostic - Answer-verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message Adage - Answer-a familiar proverb or wise saying ...

Exposition portion of a story that introduces important background information to the audience; for example, information about the setting, events occurring before the main plot, characters' back stories, etc. Hyperbole A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. (The literal Greek meaning is "overshoot.") Irony/ironic The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. M...

Praxis 5002 Exam Questions with Correct Answers Explicit Instruction - Answer-systematic instruction of concepts, strategies, and skills that builds from simple to complex. Implicit Instruction - Answer-The focus is on the student as an active and involved learner who constructs knowledge by using previously learned information Scaffolding - Answer-Adjusting the support offered during a teaching session to fit the child's current level of performance Metacognition - Answer-awareness ...

An Inspector Calls Quotes and Analysis Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers Stage directions: All three acts...are continuous - CORRECT ANSWER- Act 1 Page 1: Traditional Greek tragedies written in three acts. The action is continuous suggesting there is no time to think, action happens in real time and with a sense of pace and immediacy and inevitability Stage directions: Spring 1912 - CORRECT ANSWER- Act 1 Page 1: The play is set in the spring of 1912 which sets up much of the dramat...

Literature in the narrower (and more usual) sense - ️️Writing that has artistic or cultural significance Apostrophe - ️️An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present Sarcasm - ️️Mock-praise Hyperbole - ️️An ironic overstatement Understatement - ️️Ironic minimizing of fact Litotes - ️️A kind of understatement with the use of no or not Verbal paradox - ️️The words themselves seem to be contradictory Situational paradox -...