Warm-up

1. Warm-up • Please fill out a homework completion form for: • Characterization/ stalker assignment • Lorax theme questions • Then….have something out to read!!!

2. Types of Irony

3. Warm-up • Please write down these additions/ specifications for your homework: • History: Study for chapter 3.1-2 quiz. • History: Declaration of Independence Assignment • English: Declaration of Independence Assignment (same assignment—yes, they are related).

4. Verbal Irony • Verbal irony presents a contrast to what is actually said and what is intended. Basically, this means the use of words to present opposite meanings. It refers to words spoken only. • Example: A student fails a test, and a peer rudely remarks, “Great job!” • Example: ;Your boyfriend shows up in a ripped up shirt and stained jeans. With a smirk, you say, “Oh, I see you dressed up for our date.”

5. Situational Irony • Situational irony occurs when events happen that are opposite of that which is expected. • Example: A person lies to avoid going to work, then ends up catching an illness right before he has no choice but to go back to work. • Example: You break a date with your girlfriend so you can go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to the conession stand, you run into your girlfriend, who is with another guy.

6. Dramatic Irony • Dramatic irony occurs when we, the readers or watchers, know something that one or more of the characters in the story do not know. • In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the reader knows Juliet is only sleeping, but Romeo believes she is dead and proceeds to take his own life. • There is a killer loose in the woods, and you as the reader know this. The young lovebird teenagers, however, go on a walk in the woods because they love the beautiful, romantic, innocent-looking trees, and they become the next murderer’s victims.

7. Be looking for these three types of irony to show up in The Telltale Heart as we read it in class!