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Irony

Irony. Irony Always features an incongruity between words and their meaning, actions and their results, or appearance and reality. Irony, cont. Put another way, irony deals with a perceived truth vs. an actual truth. Types of Irony. Verbal

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Irony

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  1. Irony • Irony Always features an incongruity between words and their meaning, actions and their results, or appearance and reality.

  2. Irony, cont. • Put another way, irony deals with a perceived truth vs. an actual truth.

  3. Types of Irony • Verbal • What a person says is opposite of what he means; sarcasm

  4. Types of Irony • Dramatic • The audience understands the implications or meanings of a situation, but the character does not.

  5. Example of Dramatic Irony • In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. He vows to discover his “wife’s” killer.

  6. Types of Irony • Situational • A happening that is opposite of what is expected or intended. *** Not every plot twist is ironic!!

  7. Situational Irony • Good example: In Matrix: Reloaded, the machines designed to be run by people instead assume power OVER people.

  8. Situational Irony • Bad example: • In The Black Dahlia, a detective learns that his illicit lover is involved in a crime he is investigating.

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