Hamilton (32-65)

“One of the most famous examples is Jonathon Swift’s bitter satire ‘A Modest Proposal,’ which purports to present a happy solution to the famine in the author’s native Ireland: using infants of the starving lower classes as a source of food. At no point does the narrator abandon his pretense of cool rationality or complacency: the reaction of horror is left to the reader” (Hamilton 44).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/02/irony_the_doubleedged_sword.html

IF YOU HAVE ANY SENSE OF HUMOR AT ALL, YOU WILL READ THIS!!!!
"Oxymoron: is a compressed paradox that closely links two seemingly contradictory elements in a way that, on further consideration, turns out to make good sense." (Hamilton, pg. 57)
"Litotes: is a figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite." (Hamilton, pg. 57)
"Anaphora: is the intentional repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs. (Hamilton, pg. 64)
IF YOU HAVE ANY SENSE OF HUMOR AT ALL, YOU WILL READ THIS!!!!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/02/riddling_morons_hidden_away_in.html

Warning! What you are about to re-read (or read for the first time if you actually didn't read this) may (re)shock you! (Or not)

"The major types of irony are verbal, structural, dramatic, tragic, and cosmic" (Hamilton Essential Literary Terms pg 44).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/irony_comes_out_of_the_closet.html

“In a metaphor, a word or phrase that in literal use designates one kind of thing is applied to a conspicuously different object, concept, or experience, without asserting an explicit comparison” (Hamilton 33).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/02/am_i_alone_here.html

"...sarcasm, the taunting use of apparent approval or praise for actual disapproval or dispraise, is mistakenly used as synonymous with verbal irony."

-From Sharon Hamilton's Essential Literary Terms, p. 44

"'I'm going to opium dens, dens of vice and criminals' hangouts, Mother. I've joined the Hogan Gang, I'm a hired assassin, I carry a tommy gun in a violin case!...They call me Killer, Killer Wingfield, I'm leading a double-life, a simple, honest warehouse worker by day, by night a dynamic czar of the underworld, Mother.'"

-Tennessee William's play The Glass Menagerie as quoted by Hamilton

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/02/verbal_irony_or_just_an_angry.html

"Paradox is a trope in which a statement that appears on the surface to be contradictory or impossible turns out to express an often striking truth" (Hamilton 56).

This link will not take you to my blog entry:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/02/this_blog_entry_is_not_true.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/02/the_overly_dramatic_girls_love.html

"Hyperbole (...from the Greek word for 'to exceed') is a trope in which a point is state in a way that is greatly exaggerated... to imply the intensity of a speaker's feelings or convictions by putting them in uncompromising or absolute terms" (Hamilton 54)

"Understatement is a form of irony in which a point is deliberately expressed as less, in magnitude, value, or importance, than it actually is" (Hamilton 55).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/02/the_foundation_of_british_come.html

"It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures"

(A blog about Irony)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/02/el150_sing_it_out_alanis.html

"Dramatic Irony: occurs when the audience is privy to knowledge that one or more of the characters lacks. The technique may be used for comic or tragic effects (Hamilton 46)."

Are you an Oedipus fan? If so, check this out:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/02/poor_odeipusif_only_you_would.html

Pathetic Fallacy
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RichelleDodaro/2008/02/pathetic.html

"An extended form of personification occurs in allegory, in which an abstract concept is presented as though it were a character who speaks and acts as an independent being" (Hamilton 39).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/02/snowball_and_napoleon_love_all.html

So I got really excited for this entry cause Similies make me SMILE.
"A simile is a figure of thought in which one kind of thing is compared to a markedly different object, concept, or experience..." (Hamilton 32).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/02/similies_make_me_smile.html

"Irony is the broadest class of figures of thought that depend on presenting a deliberate contrast between two levels of meaning" (Hamilton Pg. 44)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndreaNestler/2008/02/ironyhamilton_pg_44.html

"When dramatic irony occurs in tragedies, it is called tragic irony. The audience knows from the opening scene of Othello, for example, that the malevolent Iago is plotthing the demise of the noble general whom he pretends to serve faithfully, and that his epithet, "honest Iago", is entirely ironic." (Hamilton 46)

“An extended form of personification occurs in allegory, in which an abstract concept is presented as though it were a character who speaks and acts as an independent being” (Hamilton 39).

Ever wonder what the writers of "The Wizard of Oz" were on? Well if you know what an allegory is, you'll better understand that story at least. Read on to know more about allegory...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/03/the_allegorical_wizard.html