Irony in "The Necklace"

Situational Irony is

• When you expect one thing to happen, but something else happens

• When the audience/reader knows something the characters do not

• When a character says one thing but means something different

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Verbal Irony is

• When you expect one thing to happen, but something else happens

• When the audience/reader knows something the characters do not

• When a character says one thing but means something different

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Dramatic Irony is

• When you expect one thing to happen, but something else happens

• When the audience/reader knows something the characters do not

• When a character says one thing but means something different

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What type of Irony is this: “‘Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!’” (Maupassant paragraph 115).

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What type of Irony is this: “Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she flung the invitation petulantly across the table” (Maupassant paragraph 10).

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What type of Irony is this: “He grew slightly pale, for this was exactly the amount he had been saving for a gun….nevertheless he said, ‘Very well. I’ll give you four hundred francs’” (Maupassant paragraph 25).

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What type of Irony is this: “When Madame Loisel took back the necklace to Madame Forestier, the latter said to her in a chilly voice: ‘You ought to have brought it back sooner; I might have needed it’” (Maupassant paragraph 88).

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What type of Irony is this: “Madame Loisel came to know the ghastly life of abject poverty….the servant was dismissed. They changed their flat; they took a garret under the roof.” (Maupassant paragraph 90).

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What type of Irony is this: “But suddenly she uttered a cry. The necklace was no longer around her neck!” (Maupassant paragraph 54).

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What type of Irony is this: "‘Nothing. Only I haven’t a dress and so I can’t go to this party. Give your invitation to some friend of yours whose wife will be turned out better than I shall” (Maupassant paragraph 19).

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4