Intentional use of words that are the opposite of what should be spoken.
Basically . . . sarcasm
When the opposite from what is expected to happen occurs.
A type of “perverse surprise”
Gus Grissom
Reagan Assassination Attempt
A character alone in a scene, speaking his or her thoughts out loud.
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Function of soliloquy
A type of wordplay that purposely confuses similarly sounding words for dramatic effect, which is usually humor.
What did the three legged dog say when he walked into the saloon?
“I’m lookin’ for the man who shot my paw.”
Did you hear what happened when the butcher backed up into the meat grinder?
He got a little ‘behind’ in his work.
A character who has a personality flaw that leads to his or her downfall.
The function of tragic flaw in a protagonist is to evoke a deep sense of loss and empathy for the fallen.
Anakin Skywalker
What is his tragic flaw?
Latin for “in the midst of affairs”
When a story begins somewhere in the middle, and is told in flashback.
Can you think of any films that begin in medias res?
Can you think of the function of in medias res?
A figure of speech where a part of something represents the whole.
“Hey dude, nice wheels”.
“All hands on deck”
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Or where the entire thing represents a part:
“Hey, use your head”
Part represents whole
The military has boots on the ground in Somalia.
In the pasture there are over 300 head of cattle.
Using brand names to represent a line of products:
“Man, I’m thirsty! I could sure use a Coke.”
“Ughh!, you just snotted all over the dinner table. I’ll get you a Kleenex”
A rhetorical device where you must think about it to understand it.
The use of figurative speech, not the literal meaning.
aAs a matter of practice, they carried topo maps and hand grenades and canteens and MREs and ammunition and poncho liners and the fear of dying.
The fish bumped into the concrete structure and said “DAM”
We came, We saw. We conquered.
pun
metonymy
Verbal irony
synecdoche
TROPE