ENGL 1205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Irony
19 Jul 2018
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Irony: a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happened and what is expected to happen in life and literature. In verbal irony, characters say the opposite of what what they mean. In irony of circumstance or situation, the opposite of what is expected occurs. In dramatic irony, a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters. Persona: is a social role or character played by an actor. Theme: the idea of a literacy work abstracted from its details of language, characters, actions and cast in the form of a generalization. Point of view: the angle of vision of which a story is narrated. First person: the narrator is a character or an observer. Objective: the narrator knows or appears to know no more than the reader. Limited omniscient: narrator knows some but not all things about the characters.
