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| a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting or charging the subject of the satiric attack. Sarcastic. |
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The Onion.
Saturday Night Live
The Simpsons |
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| When one uses a part to represent the whole. |
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Lend me your ears (give me your attention)
All hands on deck. |
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| Putting 2 contradictory words together. |
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| Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it. |
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| The White House made an announcement. |
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| Giving human qualities to animals or objects. |
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| The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. |
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| When an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed as if present. |
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| Extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equal with the meaning that lie outside the narrative itself. Underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or personal significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Story with 2 meanings: a literal & symbolic. |
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Dante's Inferno
Pilgrim's Progress |
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| Reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory. Two opposing ideas. |
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| Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. |
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| Exaggeration or overstatement |
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| I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse. |
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