Question

The signs reading “Consult DRAGON’S TEETH The People For Total Security” and “YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED” in Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time” are an example of what literary device? Select all that apply.
irony
foreshadowing
metonymy
simile

Answer 1

Irony
Foreshadowing
Metonymy

Answer 2

Answer:

• irony  

• foreshadowing  

• metonymy

Explanation:

These plates show the literary devices: irony, foreshadowing and metominia. Which can be explained as follows:

Irony is the use of words with a different or opposite sense of the more common meaning. It is a figure of speech that makes a humorous contradiction to what is meant.

Foreshadowing is the use of words that characterize an advertisement or prognosis, which predicts an event or announces its accomplishment by means of clues.

Last but not least, metomynia is the rhetorical figure that consists of the use of a word outside its normal semantic context, having a meaning that has an objective, contiguous, material or conceptual relationship with the content or referent occasionally thought out.