Earnest Literary Devices

what is a pun?

• words that are sound the same but spelled different

• an idiom

• play on words: a joke

• pickle and onion mix

Which one of these is considered a pun?

• It was like taking candy from a baby

• This is a piece of cake

• Kings worry about receding heir line

Dramatic irony is when

• what is said is different than what is meant

• the audience knows something the character doesn't

• what happens is the opposite of what is expected

What is verbal irony?

• what is said is different than what is meant

• the audience knows something a character doesn't know.

• what happens is the opposite of what is expected

Identify the paradox. 

• Whose turn is it?
• Robert carefully built a model of the ship.
• Remember to take out the trash.
•  If you want peace, you must prepare for war.

deafening silence

• oxymoron 
• paradox
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration 

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses self contradictory terms back to back.

• True
• False