Retorical figures

Irony

• A situation where expectation is the opposite of reality
• An statement meaning the opposite of what it is said

Verbal Irony

Not lying, the audience is meant to understand that the meaning is the opposite.

• Sarcasm: A nice comment intended to insult or embarrass. (Sarcasm is the intent
• Overstatement: Exagerating the meaning of what it is said
• Understatement: Minimize the meaning
• Socratic Irony: Pretend to be ignorant to outsmart others.

Situational Irony

• Cosmic Irony: Expectations altered by fate or divine intervention
• Poetic Irony/Justice: Goodnes/Evil are rewarded/punished in some ironic way.
• Structural Irony: Character is unable to comprehend the world arround them.
• Historical Irony: Contrast between how people think of their future and what it happened

Dramatic Irony

The audience knows something the character doesn't.

Creates situations of comedy, suspense and tragedy.

• Phases

  • Preparation: When the audience is given the information
  • Supension: The time while the characters still does not know
  • Resolution: When the reality is revealed to the characters

• Tragic Irony: When the results are tragic