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IRONY

IRONY. Three Main Types. VERBAL IRONY. When a character says one thing but actually means another. EXAMPLE:. “I’m so excited to take my science test!” when I really haven’t studied. Situational Irony.

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IRONY

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  1. IRONY Three Main Types

  2. VERBAL IRONY When a character says one thing but actually means another. EXAMPLE: “I’m so excited to take my science test!” when I really haven’t studied.

  3. Situational Irony When there is a contrast (difference) between what you expect to happen and what actually happens. EXAMPLE: A clumsy boy is learning to ride a bike. Finally, he has overcome all obstacles. Nothing can stop him now! Then, a bump in the sidewalk flings him off his bike, and he lands in the neighbor’s flower bed.

  4. Dramatic Irony When the reader knows some important piece of information that a character does not know. EXAMPLE: In a horror story, the reader knows there is a murderer hiding in the closet. The character is unaware and is talking on the phone about having to pick out an outfit for the dance. She is walking towards the closet.

  5. Here are some real life examples: The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.

  6. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe, leaving her mentally retarded.

  7. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came down eight hours short of the 400-day record, to find that his sponsor had gone bankrupt, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

  8. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Till that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

  9. Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

  10. Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.

  11. Independent Practice • Choose one type of irony. • With a partner write a short skit that demonstrates your chosen type of irony. • Act it out for the class. • Your skit is an excellent example if the class can guess the type of irony correctly.

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