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IMPORTANCE OF TONE. To misinterpret tone is to misinterpret meaning. If students miss irony or sarcasm, they may find something serious in veiled humor. IRONY. IRONY. Often a poem introduces distance between what happens or is said and what we expect to happen or to
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IMPORTANCE OF TONE To misinterpret tone is to misinterpret meaning. If students miss irony or sarcasm, they may find something serious in veiled humor.
IRONY Often a poem introduces distance between what happens or is said and what we expect to happen or to perceive, causing us to feel the tension between the two conflicting ideas. This uneasy (and sometimes amusing) distance, or disassociation, is called irony. It's easier to illustrate than explain.
IRONY The use of irony assumes two audiences: one who understands only one meaning and one who also understands an alternative meaning.
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DRAMATIC IRONY In dramatic irony, the first audience is the speaker or the character on stage who doesn't have all the information. The second audience is the literal audience or another character who does have all the information.
DRAMATIC IRONY In Romeo and Juliet we know Juliet is weeping because Romeo has been banished. Her mother thinks Juliet is weeping for the death of Tybalt. Juliet says she wants to go to Romeo to show him how she feels about him.
DRAMATIC IRONY In King Lear we know that Edmund the bastard is tricking his brother and father into believing that each is trying to harm the other so Edmund can inherit everything. Meanwhile Gloucester and Edgar, by trusting Edmund, play into his hands.
VERBAL IRONY In verbal irony, the first audience is the person who takes a statement at face value; the second audience is the person who understands that the statement actually means its opposite.
Verbal Irony or Sarcasm? What is the difference between ironic statements and sarcastic statements? Irony is usually directed inwardly at the speaker’s own flaws. Sarcasm is usually directed at others to criticize while maintaining deniability.
Because you start yelling in the theater about how you’re old and you don’t have much time left and you don’t want your precious last hours wasted by a bad movie! It’s terribly, terribly embarrassing! That’s it, Granddad. I’m never going to the movies with you again. But you yell the same thing!! It’s humorously IRONIC when I do it. Why not?!
SITUATIONAL IRONY In situational irony the first audience is the person in the situation; the second audience is the observer who understands that the situation reveals a comic or tragic human condition.
SITUATIONAL IRONY In The Octopus by Frank Norris, an evil railroad agent drives farmers into bankruptcy and corners the market on wheat by raising shipping rates. Just when he has successfully reached his goal, he falls into a railroad car being loaded with wheat and is smothered by it.
SITUATIONAL IRONY • It is only when Lear goes mad that he understands what he did to Cordelia • It is only when Gloucester is blinded that he ‘sees’ that Edgar was a good son and Edmund was the evil plotter.
Irony does not mean simply, "things that a bummer." For example, if it were to rain on your wedding day, that would be a bummer, but it would not be ironic. A better example of irony would be to write a song with irony as its topic, and then to list a bunch of events that aren't at all ironic. Don't ya think? Alanis Morrisette?
Which irony is this? United Fire & Casualty, a property and casualty insurer that got flooded out of its headquarters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this week, announced it expects to report losses this quarter because it wasn't fully insured. True story from 2008 spring flooding
IRONIC Looking for Dixie – she’s right under his NOSE Fire department fire Paying to return newspaper? SARCASTIC Her refusal of a coat? Things in the video that were
