Match the example with the type of irony it exemplifies.
1. In the movie 3:10 to Yuma, the only person who will com to the aid of the "good guy" is the town drunk
(Situational Irony)
2. In the movie Titanic, the owner of the White Star line says to the captain "Rev up the engines! Let her stretch her sea legs! I want to set a world record for a Transatlantic crossing. In a few days we'll be the headline story in all the world's newspapers."
(Dramatic Irony)
3. The Dean asks one of the students how a professor is doing. Should he get a promotion to full-time status? The student answers with a sneer on his/her face "Yeah, you picked a real winner in him!"
(Verbal Irony)
4. In the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hardy ends the novl by saying that the gods had finished their sport with her.
(Cosmic Irony)
5. In the movie Walking Tall, the town hooker comes to the aid of the vigilante sheriff.
(Situational Irony)
-Cosmic Irony
-Dramatic Irony
-Situational Irony
-Verbal Irony
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Match the example with the term it exemplifies. Use each answer once.
1. In Melville’s novella Billy Budd , Billy says to the captain “I have eaten the King’s bread and my allegiance is to the king.”
(Allusion)
2. In Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath , one of the characters burns a postcard showing the Statue of Liberty, thus showing that the American Dream doesn’t exist for everyone.
(Symbolic action)
3. In the movie Woman in Red , Gene Wilder’s persona is transfixed by the sight of Kelly LeBrock’s persona’s skirt flying up as she walks over a hot air grate.
(Visual allusion)
4. In the series The Honeymooners , Ralph Cramden says to his wife “Caesar had his Brutus and I have you, dear!”
(Synecdoche)
5. A man comments about his wife’s going off for several weeks: “I’m going to miss the old skirt!”
(Metonymy)
-Allusion
-Metonymy
-Symbolic action
-Synecdoche
-Visual allusion
Poetry. Define and give an example for each. (In the case of #C, #D, and #E, you can give hypothetical examples.)
A.) Didactic poetry
B.) Epic poetry
C.) Iambic meter
(Stressed, stressed, stressed)
D.) Anapestic meter
(Unstressed, stressed, stressed)
E.) Rhyme scheme
(ABBA)
1. In the movie 3:10 to Yuma, the only person who will com to the aid of the "good guy" is the town drunk
(Situational Irony)
2. In the movie Titanic, the owner of the White Star line says to the captain "Rev up the engines! Let her stretch her sea legs! I want to set a world record for a Transatlantic crossing. In a few days we'll be the headline story in all the world's newspapers."
(Dramatic Irony)
3. The Dean asks one of the students how a professor is doing. Should he get a promotion to full-time status? The student answers with a sneer on his/her face "Yeah, you picked a real winner in him!"
(Verbal Irony)
4. In the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hardy ends the novl by saying that the gods had finished their sport with her.
(Cosmic Irony)
5. In the movie Walking Tall, the town hooker comes to the aid of the vigilante sheriff.
(Situational Irony)
-Cosmic Irony
-Dramatic Irony
-Situational Irony
-Verbal Irony
I put the answer I thought it was in the ()
Match the example with the term it exemplifies. Use each answer once.
1. In Melville’s novella Billy Budd , Billy says to the captain “I have eaten the King’s bread and my allegiance is to the king.”
(Allusion)
2. In Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath , one of the characters burns a postcard showing the Statue of Liberty, thus showing that the American Dream doesn’t exist for everyone.
(Symbolic action)
3. In the movie Woman in Red , Gene Wilder’s persona is transfixed by the sight of Kelly LeBrock’s persona’s skirt flying up as she walks over a hot air grate.
(Visual allusion)
4. In the series The Honeymooners , Ralph Cramden says to his wife “Caesar had his Brutus and I have you, dear!”
(Synecdoche)
5. A man comments about his wife’s going off for several weeks: “I’m going to miss the old skirt!”
(Metonymy)
-Allusion
-Metonymy
-Symbolic action
-Synecdoche
-Visual allusion
Poetry. Define and give an example for each. (In the case of #C, #D, and #E, you can give hypothetical examples.)
A.) Didactic poetry
B.) Epic poetry
C.) Iambic meter
(Stressed, stressed, stressed)
D.) Anapestic meter
(Unstressed, stressed, stressed)
E.) Rhyme scheme
(ABBA)