Irony & Symbolism Terms Quiz

Contrast between expectation and reality, between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true

• Irony

• Symbol

• Theme

• Character

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CCSS.L.8.5A

A writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different; some types are sarcasm, overstatement, understatement

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Cosmic Irony

• Situational Irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know; the use of this creates suspense

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Cosmic Irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or when there is a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really does take place

• Cosmic Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Contrast between what a person or character would like to happen and what “higher powers” have planned; the idea that fate, destiny, or the gods control and toy with human hopes and expectations

• Cosmic Irony

• Ambiguity

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

multiple meanings; an element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways

• Ambiguity

• Irony

• Symbolism

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself (literal/concrete meaning) and for something beyond itself (figurative/abstract meaning); often visual, reappear throughout a text, and are associated with figurative language

• Theme

• Flashback

• Irony

• Symbol

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A well-known symbol that has been handed down over time; public symbols; universal symbols

• Inherited Symbol

• Invented Symbol

• Ambiguity

• Verbal Irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Taking a new object, character, or event and making it the embodiment of some human concern by attaching meaning to it

• Invented Symbol

• Inherited Symbol

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A symbolic type of story; a very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about life

• Poetry

• Allegory

• Parable

• Fable

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5