d no idea of the situation s/he was being led in to. Example: In Shakespeare's Hamlet, nearing the end of the play, in the last scene, the Queen drinks the poisoned wine cup, not knowing that it was specifically poisoned for Hamlet to drink, while the audience is made well aware of this fact by Claudius' dropping a pearl into the cup and his earlier discussion with Laertes. Thus, this is an instance of dramatic irony. 6) Foreshadowing is demonstrated in the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a literary work. These signs are generally hidden in the work and are not noticed until the even that was hinted at actually happens. Example: In The Chocolate War, Brother Leon, when asking for the Vigils help in the sale of chocolates, says that there has been a loss of revenue for many reasons-the last of which being that "the interest in boxing has fallen off." This directly foreshadows what happens at the end of the book, when, to the amusement of a full capacity crowd at the boxing rink, Jerry gets pummeled by Emile Janza. 7) Hyperbole is the instance in which there is an extreme exaggeration or overstatement. It is often used to describe an event, object, or character, which has an extremely unusual characteristic. Example: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red." If Shakespeare's lines in Macbeth were to be taken literally, they would make no sense. The hyperbole works to illustrate the immense guilt that Macbeth feels for the brutal murder of his king and kinsman. 8) Imagery describes language that evokes one, several or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and/or feeling. It is used to give the reader a mental image of what is happening in a literary work Example: "My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. . . . He was running at my side, out of breath, at th...
