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02:Pretest 2:Literary Elements and Devices ||
21.
Bryce is reading a passage from his favorite story. He finds the story humorous because of the deliberate exaggeration. The writer describes
people, things, or events as if they were much greater than they really are. Which literary device is the author using?
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symbolism
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understatement
hyperbole
irony

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.