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The Role of Irony in Text Interpretation

Explore the different types of irony in literature and how they add depth and meaning to a story. Discover how irony engages readers and leads them to uncover hidden implications. Examples from "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Lamb To the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl.

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The Role of Irony in Text Interpretation

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  1. The Role of Irony in Text InterpretationBatumi ShotaRustaveli State UniversityLaliTavadzeAssistant Professor

  2. What is irony?

  3. Writers different stylistic devices Readers: hidden meaning, implied idea, read between the lines Express idea Lead the reader to the answer

  4. Story • Predictable events/characters • Expected end Literature • Unexpected • Stylistic devices

  5. Irony • Verbal • Situation • Dramatic • Tragic

  6. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin • “The Lamb To the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl

  7. Stories Different types of irony • Emphasize the situation • Add vivid hues to the comprehension • Fill the readers with emotions and suspense • Author’s goal • implication

  8. Verbal Irony Tragic Irony Irony Dramatic Irony Situational Irony

  9. Verbal Irony • The simplest kind of irony. • You use it everyday when you say one thing and really mean another. someone says something that deliberately contradicts what that person actually means. • It is often similar to a sarcastic response.

  10. Situational Irony • Occurs when a situation turns out to be the opposite of what you thought it would be. • something happens that contradicts readers’ expectations. • Example: • The teacher’s daughter is a High School drop out. • The mayor’s wife gets caught stealing. • The chef won’t eat his/her own cooking. • The barber always needs a hair cut himself.

  11. Dramatic Irony • Occurs when the audience knows something that the characters in the story, on the screen, or on the stage do not know. It’s like the audience is more aware of what’s going on than the people in the production. • This is used to engage the audience and keep them actively involved in the storyline.

  12. Situational Irony

  13. “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” the vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body”. • K. Chopin “The story of an hour”

  14. “But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome”. • K. Chopin “The story of an hour”

  15. “Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richard’s quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.” • K. Chopin “The story of an hour”

  16. Dramatic Irony

  17. “Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. “Luis, open the door! I beg; open the door – you will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Luise? For heaven’s sake open the door”. Josephine does not know that the news came as a relief for Mrs. Mallard and it is shown in the following sentence: “Go, away. I am not making myself ill.” No. she was drinking in a very elixir of life through the open window.”

  18. “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease – of the joy that kills.”

  19. Roald Dahl “The Lamb to the Slaughter” “Sometimes Jack Noonan spoke at her gently as he passed by. Her husband, he told her, had been killed by a blow on the back of the head administered with a heavy blunt instrument, almost certainly a large piece of metal. They were looking for the weapon. The murderer may have taken it with him, but on the other hand he may have thrown it away or hidden it somewhere on the premises.”

  20. Roald Dahl “The Lamb to the Slaughter” “- Personally, I think it’s right here on the premises. - Probably right under our very noses. What do you think, Jack?” And in the other room Mary Maloney began to giggle.”

  21. The following main effects may be singled out: • First: it can be used to show up pretence and folly in an amusing way. • Second: it can take the form of fierce or wounding criticism. • Third: it can be used to show the tragedy or sadness of a situation

  22. THE END

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