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Exploring Literary Terms: Foreshadowing, Irony, Allusion, and Persona in Literature

This guide delves into fundamental literary terms used in storytelling, including foreshadowing, irony, allusion, and persona. Foreshadowing involves hints that suggest future events, creating suspense. Irony can take several forms, including situational, dramatic, structural, and verbal irony, each offering a unique twist in narratives. Allusion enriches texts by referencing external elements that resonate with readers. Persona reflects the author's chosen identity within their work, allowing for diverse narrative perspectives and deeper connections with characters. Discover how these techniques enhance literature.

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Exploring Literary Terms: Foreshadowing, Irony, Allusion, and Persona in Literature

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  1. Ender’s Game Literary Terms

  2. Foreshadowing • The use of hints or clues in a story to suggest what action is to come. • It is frequently used to create interest and build suspense.

  3. Irony • A perception of inconsistency, sometimes humorous, in which the significance and understanding of a statement or event is changed by its context.

  4. Types of Irony: • Situational irony: what happens is the opposite of what is expected • Example: The firehouse burned down. • Example: “The Gift of the Magi”

  5. Types of Irony • Dramatic irony: the audience or reader knows more about a character’s situation than the character does and knows that the character’s understanding is incorrect • Example: In Medea, Creon asks, “What atrocities could she commit in one day?” The reader, however, knows Media will destroy her family and Creon’s by day’s end.

  6. Types of Irony • Structural Irony: the use of a naïve hero, whose incorrect perceptions differ from the reader’s correct ones. • Example: Huck Finn

  7. Types of Irony • Verbal irony: a discrepancy between what is said and what is really meant; sarcasm. • Example: A large man whose nickname is “Tiny”

  8. Allusion • A reference to a person, place, poem, book, event, etc., which is not part of the story, that the author expects the reader will recognize. • Example: In The Glass Menagerie, Tom speaks of “Chamberlain’s umbrella,” a reference to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

  9. Persona • The author’s chosen identity in a work of literature • The plot is revealed through what this character says • This technique allows the writer to adopt the beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes of a character in the work, which allows for different approaches to stories • The reader should usually interpret the “I” in the writing as someone different from the author

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