Irony Unit 4 10th grade

contrast between the literal interpretation of a statement and its implied meaning.

• verbal irony

• structural irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

• litotes

• irony

• sarcasm

I cannot turn back toward you ,my dear, for your light would make me blind.

• hyperbole

• understatement

definite possibility

• satire

• oxymoron

• pun

corrective ridicule in literature

• satire

• pun

• oxymoron

restraint or lack of emphasis for rhetorical effect

• understatement

• hyperbole

If you're watching a movie about the Titanic and a character leaning on the balcony right before the ship hits the iceberg says, "It's so beautiful I could just die,"

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

, “That wasn't half bad"

• litotes

• pun

• satire

if it were a cold, rainy gray day, you might say, “What a beautiful day!”

• irony

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• satire

SNL, ANIMAL FARM and The Simpons are examples of....

• Puns

• Irony

• Satire