Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Irony and Allegory Definitions for Forsberg

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Dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.

Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance.