Irony Practice

Identify the type of irony in the example:

A couple's counselor who has been divorced six times.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Identify the type of irony in the example:

"Wow. Hilarious." in response to a really terrible joke.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Identify the type of irony in the example:

A man is approaching a banana peel. The audience sees it, but the man does not.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

Identify the type of irony in the example:

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the reader knows that the potion Juliet has taken was only a sleeping potion and that she isn't dead. Romeo does not know this.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

Identify the type of irony in the example:

A vegetarian who works for a meat-packing plant.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Identify the type of irony in the example:

A student fails a test and says, "Oh my dad is really going to love this."

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the type of irony in the example:

On the television show, Survivor, Alan makes a deal with Richard and says that they will be in an alliance together. Later, Alan speaks into the camera and tells the audience that he has no intention to stick to his deal with Richard.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Identify the type of irony in the example:

Bill Gates enters a raffle and win a brand new computer.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the type of irony in the example:

In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, the reader is aware that a character is cheating his father openly. The father is not.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.9

Identify the type of irony in the example:

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, only the readers know that Lady Macbeth and her husband killed King Duncan.

• Verbal

• Situational

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4