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Simile
- a figure of speech involving the
comparison of one thing to another thing
of a different kind.
“It was an American tradition, like fathers
chasing kids around with power tools”-
http://writingenglish.wordpress.com/2006/
09/12/the-25-funniest-analogies-collected-
by-high-school-english-teachers/
Situational Irony
- describes a discrepancy between the
expected result and the actual results.
“In literature, William Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet provides an example of tragic
situational irony. Juliet takes a drug to fake
her death, Romeo however takes poison as
he believes Juliet to be dead, when she
awakens from her self-induced coma, she
finds Romeo's body and thus kills herself
for real.”-
http://www.ironyexamples.com/situational-
irony/
Soliloquy
- a literary device often used in drama whereby
a character relates his or her thoughts and
feelings without addressing any of the other
characters.
“To play or not to playWhether it's nobler
in the mind to sufferThan to be in pain on
the courtOr suck it up and playAnd by
defeating your adversary, to pain: to
swell”-
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/ha
mlet/examples_of_hamlet_soliloquy.htm
Sonnet
- a poem of fourteen lines using any of a
number of formal rhyme schemes.
“She was found to wilt . With words she
scours . Ivory towers . The thick walls she
built . Well tarnished with guilt .”- Excerpt
of Her Wilting Regrets By: Paul McCann
Symbol
- a thing that represents or stands for
something else.
- “bright sunshine symbolizes goodness and
water is a symbolic cleanser.”-
http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/liter
ary_elements.htm
Tragedy
- an event causing great suffering.
"For never was a story of more woe / Than
this of Juliet and her Romeo.”-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juli
et
Verbal Irony
- verbal irony is intentionally produced.
".....I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I
swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I
hate, rather than Paris ...”-
http://www.enotes.com/romeo-and-juliet/q-
and-a/what-some-examples-verbal-irony-
romeo-juliet-70761