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IRONY
The result of a contrast between appearance or expectation and reality
*Hiding what is actually the case to achieve special, artistic effects
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Verbal Irony• Words are
used to suggest opposite of what is meant
• Example- Someone says, “Don’t be nervous; it’s only the most important test of your life.”
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Dramatic Irony• What appears
to be true to a character is not what the reader or audience knows to be true
• Example-A boy tells his mother he is late because he was at a friend’s house. The audience knows that the mother talked to friend’s mother and knows son was not there.
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Situational Irony• An event
occurs that goes against expectations that have been built up
• Example-A story has a mouse chasing a cat
• Expectations are a cat chasing a mouse
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Explain the irony
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Irony of fate or Cosmic Irony
• Suggestion that some malicious fate is deliberately frustrating human efforts
• Example—In “The Gift of the Magi”, where the wife sells her hair to buy her husband a watch chain, not knowing that he sold his watch to buy her hair comb.
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Explain the irony (cont’d)
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Explain the irony (cont’d)
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Explain the irony (cont’d)
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Explain the irony (cont’d)
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Explain the irony (cont’d)
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