Irony Review

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​Type & explain how is this an example of Situational Irony? What makes it situational Irony?

Open Ended

Respond to the previous example of situational irony here; how was it an example of situational irony:

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​Type & explain how is this an example of Verbal Irony? What makes it Verbal Irony?

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​Type & explain how is this an example of Dramatic Irony? What makes it Dramatic Irony?

​A night construction crew just cemented a new sidewalk, a sidewalk that one man crosses on the daily. The night before, the construction crew taped of the sidewalk and put a sign saying "don't cross; will ruin the new cement." The next morning, the man that walks through that sidewalk was looking down on his phone, and walks through the sign, and into the sidewalk.

Open Ended

Respond to the previous example of dramatic irony here; how is it an example of dramatic irony:

Multiple Choice

This irony is when: the audience/reader knows something a character(s) doesn't.

• situational

• verbal

• dramatic

Multiple Choice

dramatic irony: when a character knows what ANOTHER character DOESN'T know

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Verbal irony can sometimes be when someone is verablly being sarcastic.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

"Just what I have always wanted: a broken leg!"

• Dramatic
• Situational
• Verbal

Multiple Choice

A vet hates animals.

• Dramatic
• Situational
• Verbal

Multiple Choice

"Wow! You live in a mansion!  It must be easy to keep both rooms clean."

• Dramatic
• Situational
• Verbal

Multiple Choice

The audience sees a man break into the house, but another character does not know he is upstairs.

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• none

Multiple Choice

In The Truman Show, a 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey, the main character doesn’t realize he’s living inside a TV show, but everyone else around him, including the audience, knows the truth.

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

Multiple Choice

A pilot is afraid of flying.

• verbal

• situational

• dramatic

Multiple Choice

In a movie, a man tells a woman that he loves her and wants to marry

her. The audience knows the man is already married and is planning to

move away the next day.

• verbal

• situational

• dramatic

Multiple Choice

A student saying, "Oh, great, more homework," is an example of:

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• realistic irony

Multiple Select

In the short story "The Necklace" which TWO are examples of dramatic irony?

• "The day of the ball arrived. Madame. Loisel was a great success. She was prettier than them all,  elegant, gracious, smiling, and crazy with joy. All the men looked at her, asked her name,  and endeavored to be introduced."

• "One evening her husband came home, looking triumphant and waving a 

  large envelope in his hand."

• "When Madame. Loisel took back the necklace, Madame Forestier said to her, with a chilly manner:   “You should have returned it sooner, I might have needed it.”

• "All these things, of which other women of her class would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her."

Multiple Select

In the short story "The Necklace" which TWO are examples of situational irony?

• “You must write to your friend,” said he, “that you have broken the clasp of her necklace and  that you are having it mended. That will give us time to decide what to do.” 

• "Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she threw the invitation on the table with  disdain, murmuring:  

   “What do you want me to do with that?”  

  
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• “Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred  francs!”

  
  

• "All these things, of which other women of her class would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her."