Types of Irony

What type of irony is the following example?

Mulan is the story of a young woman who pretends to be a man in order to join the military. The viewers know she is really a woman, but she fools the men in the army.

• Dramatic irony

• Cosmic irony

• Structural irony

• Verbal irony

What type of irony is used in this example?

A woman is paranoid about bugs in her apartment and thinks they will harm her. She buys hundreds of dollars of products and chemical sprays to keep the bugs away, but the chemicals eventually poison her, and she dies.

• Coincidence

• Verbal irony

• Situational irony

• Cosmic irony

What type of irony is the following example?

After falling off of her bike and breaking her leg, Sandra has to wear a large cast. Fed up with people asking her if the accident hurt, she starts telling them, “no, it felt great!”

• Poetic justice

• Coincidence

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal irony

What type of irony is the following example?

In this Greek myth, Arachne, a mortal weaver, boasts about her skill and talent, challenging Athena, the goddess of crafts, to a weaving contest. Athena weaves a tapestry that honors the gods, while Arachne weaves a tapestry that depicts the gods behaving badly. Furious at Arachne's impudence, Athena turns her into a spider, dooming her to a life of never-ending weaving.

• Cosmic irony

• Verbal irony

• Situational irony

• Tragic irony

What type of irony is the following example?

In a classic Greek tragedy, the protagonist Oedipus is abandoned as a baby because of a prophecy that says he will kill his father and marry his mother. Despite his efforts to avoid this, his actions unknowingly fulfill the prophecy when he kills a man that he later finds out was his father, and had married his own mother, so he blinds himself by stabbing his eyes.

• Cosmic irony

• Coincidence

• Socratic irony

• Overstatement

What type of irony is used in the following example?

In the show NCIS, the first scene shows a murderer committing the crime. The rest of the show follows the detectives trying to solve the crime and identify the murderer.

• Coincidence

• Dramatic Irony

• Understatement

• Situational irony

What type of irony is used in the following example?

Cameron picks up a dime he finds on the playground and exclaims, “I’m rich!”

• Overstatement

• Sarcasm

• Dramatic Irony

• Understatement

What type of irony does the image display?

• Sarcasm

• Verbal Irony

• Understatement

• Cosmic irony

What type of irony does the image display?

• Verbal irony

• Sarcasm

• Overstatement

• Poetic justice

What type of irony is used in the following example?

In the story Oliver Twist, Mr. Bumble is in charge of an orphanage and other charitable institutions in the town. He is a sadist and enjoys torturing the poor orphans. When he marries a woman for her money, she regularly beats him and humiliates him. At the end of the novel, we come to know that both Mr. and Mrs. Bumble end up being so poor that they live in the same workhouse that they once owned.

• Poetic justice

• Situational irony

• Tragic irony

• Cosmic irony