Irony

Situational Irony

• When the speaker says one thing but means another

• When the audience knows something the character does not

• When the opposite of what is expected is happen in a situation.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Verbal Irony

• When the audience knows something the character does not.

• When the speaker says one thing but means another.

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens in a situation.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Dramatic irony

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens.

• When the audience knows something the character does not.

• When the speaker says one thing but means the opposite.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A firehouse burns down.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

A man who needed medical assistance is run over by an ambulance.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

I'd like to visit that museum again as much as I'd like to gnaw off my own foot.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A marriage counselor files for divorce.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Saying "Oh fantastic!" when the situation is actually very poor.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and the audience knows the killer in the house.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The audience knows a character is in disguise but the other character talks to him thinking he is someone else.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6