8. Verbal Irony Continued Green Memory A wonderful time- the War: when money rolled in and blood rolled out. But blood was far away from here--- Money was near Do you think that the speaker really considered this a “wonderful time”? Why or why not? What kind of people might be willing to sacrifice blood for money?
9. More Fun with Verbal Irony You have a six-foot tall friend who you call “Shorty.” You planned six months in advance for good weather on your wedding day. It is suddenly raining and hailing. You step outside and say, “Oh good! I was hoping it would rain.”
10. Dramatic Irony The reader knows something about a character’s situation that a character does not know. The reader is aware of the irony. The character is unaware of the irony.
12. Situational Irony What actually happens is not expected to happen The character and the reader are unaware of the irony
13. Situational Irony Continued An aviator was sent on a mission to a distant part of a globe. When he returned to his base, he noticed it was strangely quiet. Everything was in perfect order, but there wasn’t a sign of life in that place. He wandered through the town in growing astonishment. Human beings and animals simply had vanished from the scene. He tore back to the airport, filled his plane with high octane gas, and flew terrified, to New York, London, Moscow, Shanghai. While he had been on his mission, every living creature had apparently disappeared. He was the only man alive in the world! He weighed the situation carefully and found it intolerable. Suicide seemed the only solution. He swallowed a vial of deadly poison and calmly waited for it to take effect. Just as the drug reached his brain, and the room started swimming before his eyes, he heard a familiar sound. It was the telephone ringing. -Bennett Cerf
15. What kind of irony is evident in the comic strip?
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17. What kind of irony is evident in the comic strip?
18. Irony Skits You will work with another student and write a script that contains elements of irony, either verbal, dramatic, or situational irony. Your script should be about a page long and should be written like a text of drama (character’s name: ________________). You can have a section that introduces background or something a narrator would say. You must both write the script on ruled paper. There must be at least one example of figurative language and a creative title.
Notas do Editor
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are filled with ironies and paradoxes: Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday---but never jam to-day. Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that. (Nilsenandamp; Nilsen 219-220)
People who can’t get a job until they have experience and who can’t get experience until they have a job are in a Catch-22. So are authors who can’t get their manuscripts published until they have an agent but can’t get an agent until they have been published. A newspaper story under the headline 'Texas in Catch-22' told about a Texas state law forbidding the execution of anyone insane. A prisoner on death row refused to take the medication that would keep him sane. This is the kind of irony illustrated by many urban legends and contemporary novels, films, and plays. (Nilsenandamp; Nilsen 219)
The Greek philosophers often wrestled with paradoxes. The most famous was credited to the Cretan philosopher Epimenides: 'All Cretans are liars.' Epimenides was a Cretan. Therefore, If he is lying, then the statement must be true. But if the statement is true, he must be lying. (Nilsenandamp; Nilsen 219)
There are three different types of irony: Verbal, Dramatic and Situational
