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Paradox
Overstatement
Irony
(hyperbole)
The
by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (p. 793) To the Virgins to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick (p. 742) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost (p. 746) The Writer by Richard Wilbur (p. 751) Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson (p. 752)
Paradox
An
Examples of Paradox
Much
Madness is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson (p. 757) Batter my heart, three-personed God by John Donne (p. 766)
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
A
Overstatement/Understatement
hyperbole
shall be telling this ages and ages hence all that I remember
Verbal Irony
Saying
(p. 762)
Dramatic Irony
Discrepancy
between the speakers meaning and the poems meaning ExampleThe Chimney Sweeper by William Blake (p. 763)
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~jdavis6/poem.html
Irony of Situation
Something
happens
unexpected