Running Notes 75-78

Question 1

Static character

Answer 1

one that does not undergo inner changes or undergoes a little change.

Question 2

Vernacular

Answer 2

literary genre that uses daily used language in writing and speaking.

Question 3

Understatement

Answer 3

figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. Example: “ he is not too thin” describing an obese person.

Question 4

Situational irony

Answer 4

literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. It occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead