Irony Lesson

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

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

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

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

someone says something that has a different meaning than what they literally intend

• verbal irony

• setting

• theme

• static character

The audience knows something a character doesn’t

• exposition

• theme

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

The opposite of what is expected happens happens

• situational irony

• setting

• dramatic irony

• plot

What type of irony is present when a character says something but means the opposite?

• A) Situational Irony

• B) Verbal Irony

• C) Dramatic Irony

• D) Cosmic Irony

In literature, when the audience knows something that the characters do not, what type of irony is this?

• A) Situational Irony

• B) Verbal Irony

• C) Dramatic Irony

• D) Tragic Irony

Which type of irony occurs when the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what was expected?

• A) Situational Irony

• B) Verbal Irony

• C) Dramatic Irony

• D) Cosmic Irony