Irony + 3 WM words

In real life, an ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, hopefully to save her life. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance is hit by a truck and everyone on board the ambulance is killed.

• Situational irony
• Verbal Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Not ironic

You work all afternoon cooking a fancy dinner for your boyfriend. When he takes his first bite, he spits it out into his napkin without you seeing and says to you, "Oh sweetie, this is wonderful!"

• Situational irony
• Verbal irony
• Dramatic irony
• Not ironic

A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.

• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• not ironic

In your history book, you read about a young man in the Revolutionary War who kills a British soldier. That soldier who he killed turns out to be his favorite cousin.

• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• not ironic

The son of the police chief is arrested for attempted burglary.

• verbal irony
• situational irony
• dramatic irony
• not ironic

Any instance in which the narrator or a character says one thing but means something else.

• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• not ironic

The difference between the expected results and the actual result that occurs.

• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• not ironic

When the audience understands something that a character does not know.

• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• not ironic

A baseball fan remarks, "I just love lots of homework on opening night of the World Series!"

• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• not ironic

In the children's story "Little Red Riding Hood" we know that the wolf has eaten the grandmother, but Little Red Riding Hood does not know that.

• verbal irony
• situational irony
• dramatic irony
• not ironic