literary terms 31-60

Widely told story about the past one that may now have a found tradition

• Verbal irony

• Legend

• Genre

• Journal

Something happens that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters or audience.

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal irony

• Journal

• Situational Irony

Daily or periodic account of events and the writers thoughts and feelings about those events

• Journal

• Situational irony

• Verbal irony

• Dramatic irony

Something contradictory that is said.

• verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Legend

Audience is aware of something that the characters or speaker is not.

• situational Irony

• verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Journal

Is a story composed orally and then passed from person to person by word of mouth

• Irony

• Folk Tale

• Images

• Foreshadowing

Contradiction between what happens and what is expected

• Genre

• Historical Fiction

• Humor

• Irony

Is the authors use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story

• Foreshadowing

• Folk Tale

• Genre

• Images

Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses

• Folk Tale

• Irony

• Images

• Humor

Writing intended to evoke laughter

• Humor

• Images

• Genre

• Comedy of errors