Vocab Week #2

Question 1

First person narrator

Answer 1

The storyteller

. In a book or movie when someone uses “I” “me””we”

Ex. In twilight Bella says “call me Bella”

Question 2

Flashback

Answer 2

An old memory

Ex. In a story where a girls afraid of heights there is a flashback to a time she fell off the top of the playground as a young child

Question 3

Foreshadowing

Answer 3

A warning or incident of a future event

Sometimes a future event is mentioned earlier in the story like a comment about meeting between characters

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite typically for humourous or emphatic affect

Examples:

• A fire station burns down
• a marriage counsellor files for divorce
• the police station gets robbed
• a traffic cop gets his license is suspended because of unpaid parking tickets
• a pilot has a fear of heights

Question 5

Dramatic irony

Answer 5

When a character thinks they know something is going to happen for an opposite happens

Ex A woman thinks her boyfriend is acting strangely because she’s about to propose but the audience knows that he’s planning to run away with another woman intensifying emotions

Question 6

Situational irony

Answer 6

Irony involving a situation in which actions have been having affect that is the opposite from what was intended so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected

Ex. A character stepping out into a hurricane and saying “what nice weather we’re having!” situational irony occurs when the actual result of situation is totally different from what you’d expect result to be