Definitions: Chapter 21 \u2013 \u201cSymbol, Allegory, and Irony\u201d<\/p>\n
Symbol: a person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meanings beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance.<\/p>\n
Conventional symbol: have meanings that are widely recognized by a society or culture.<\/p>\n
Literary or contextual symbols: can be a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings.<\/p>\n
Allegory: a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, characters, actions, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions.<\/p>\n
Didactic poetry: poetry designed to teach an ethical or moral lesson.<\/p>\n
Irony: a literary devise that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.<\/p>\n
Situational irony: exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension and \/ or control.<\/p>\n
Verbal irony: is a figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite.<\/p>\n
Dramatic irony: creates a discrepancy between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience member knows to be true.<\/p>\n
Satire: the literary are of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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