Irony

What is dramatic Irony?

• audience watching a play understands what's going on in a situation while the characters are unaware of what is happening

• it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead

• hen a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to say

• a figure of speech

A woman thinks her boyfriend is acting strangely because he's about to propose, but the audience knows that he is planning to run away with another woman, intensifying emotions.

• Dramatic Irony

• IDK the Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

In Shrek, Donkey asks Shrek if he can stay with him. Shrek replies, "Of course," when he really means, "No, not really."

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situation Irony

• IDK

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows Juliet is in a drugged sleep, so when Romeo thinks she is dead and kills himself (followed by Juliet doing the same) it increases the audience's shock.

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• IDK

In the Star Wars movies, Luke does not know Darth Vader is his father until Episode V, but the audience knows sooner.

• IDK

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

A fire station burns down.

• slept while cooking

• playing with fire

• This is unexpected because one would assume the fire chief would keep his own building safe. Situational Irony

• Free pass

When the air conditioning goes out on a hot summer afternoon, a tenant says to their landlord, "It's about as cool as the fires of Hell."

• IDK

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

___________ is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a difference between appearance and reality.

• Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

____________ irony occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to say. It is an intentional product of the speaker, and is contradictory to his/her emotions and actions. To define it simply, it occurs when a character uses a statement with underlying meanings that contrast with its literal meaning; it shows that the writer has used verbal irony. Writers rely on the audience’s intelligence for discerning the hidden meanings they intend to convey. Writers also use ironic similes to convey exactly the opposite of what they intend to say, such as “soft as concrete.”

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Just Regular Irony

In beauty and the beast, the audience knows that the beast is a prince living under a curse from the start but Belle is unaware of the beast's true identity...(But we do)

• Irony

• IDK

• Dramatic Irony

• Free pass