Isn't It Ironic The Hunger Games

When what actually happens is not what is expected to happen:

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

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When the audience knows something that one or more of the characters do not:

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

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When what someone says is not actually what they mean:

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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The only parking space Harold could find was a mile away, and just as he got out of his car, it started to rain. "Today is going to be a great day," said Harold.

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

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A couple was planning an April wedding and, concerned about the weather, decided to have it indoors. During the reception when the best man was giving his speech, a candle fell over and set the tablecloth on fire. The fire alarm went off, and all the fire sprinklers came on. Everyone was drenched!

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

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What type of irony is this image an example of?

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

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Which is an example of dramatic irony

• When Prims' name is drawn in The Reaping, even though she only had her name in once.

• When Katniss is sawing the branch that the tracker jacks' nest is attached to, in order to make it fall on the tributes below.

• When Effie calls the prior years' tributes from District 12 "barbaric."

Prims' name was drawn during The Reaping, even though her name was only on one slip of paper, and Katniss' name was on twenty slips of paper.

This is an example of:

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

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"Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing..."That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand.

This is an example of:

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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Extra Credit: "I stood mesmerized by the heat and the luscious scent until the rain interfered, running its icy fingers down my back, forcing me back to life."

This is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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