The Literary Challenge- Bring it On! Challenge

When a person says something that is the opposite of what he/she means, the person is using

• ironic speech
• verbal irony
• trickery
• verbal disagreement

When the audience or reader knows something important that a character in the story does not know, this is called

• situational irony
• intelligent craft
• dramatic irony
• rising action

When an event turns out in a way that would be the opposite of what a person might logically expect, this is called

• a surprise resolution
• situational irony
• suspense
• dramatic irony

In Star Wars, the audience knows that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father, but Luke doesn’t learn this until Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

“I’m sorry, sir, but this flight has been delayed by three hours,” the airline clerk explained to my uncle. “Awesome,” he replied.

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

A prisoner spends months digging an underground tunnel leading out of his cell. His plan is flawed, though, and he ends up emerging in the warden’s backyard, where he is promptly caught and returned to prison with additional time added to his sentence.

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

I’d catch a grenade for you / Throw my head on a blade for you / I’d jump in front of a train for you

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor

Don't stop, make it pop / DJ, blow my speakers up / Tonight, Imma fight / 'Til we see the sunlight / TiK ToK, on the clock / But the party don't stop no / Whoa-oh oh oh / Whoa-oh oh oh

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile

"My heart's a stereo; it beats for you"

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tone

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• The time and place of a story