Something I dug up while clearing up stuff in my house

Hi. I thought this might help (though it might not make complete sense...) -- notes scribbled from a lit lecture


Lit Lecture 3 EN1101

PERSONA [a= "mask"]
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE: poem in which the persona is a character demanding our attention. E.g. T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock". Robert Browning (Victorian Poet) famous 'dramatic monologues' "My Last Duchess", "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"

TONE AND ATTITUDE
I. Defining tone in a poem (2 def.)
Tone helps identify attitude
Tone and voice

II How to Identify Tone
- listening
- being aware of range
- generally, form affects tone

III Watch out for Irony! What is Irony?
How irony works -- understatement/exaggeration
strategies of irony -- dramatic irony/ironic point of view

IRONY -- an intellectual device, a literary strategy which alerts us to the possibility that what is said is not what is meant. Irony can work through UNDERSTATEMENT or OVERSTATEMENT

litotes (check this up if you don't know what it means)
hyperbole

irony and sarcasm

dramatic irony (situation)

ironic point of view

verbal irony