There are three types of irony:
Verbal: when speakers say the opposite of what they mean. Like sarcasm.
Dramatic: the dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand an incongruity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain unaware of the incongruity.
Situational: an occasion in which the outcome is significantly different from what was expected or considered appropriate.
Examples
Verbal: Clear like dirt, soft as a brick, Lucky me
Dramatic: as the person opens the door the rubber band stretches back, when Romeo thinks Juliet is dead in Romeo and Juliet, we know that Darth Vader is Luke's father earlier than Luke does in Star Wars.
Situational: a fire station burns down, a police station is robbed, a pilot has a fear of heights.
Practice
Name what type of irony this is.
Verbal: when speakers say the opposite of what they mean. Like sarcasm.
Dramatic: the dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand an incongruity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain unaware of the incongruity.
Situational: an occasion in which the outcome is significantly different from what was expected or considered appropriate.
Examples
Verbal: Clear like dirt, soft as a brick, Lucky me
Dramatic: as the person opens the door the rubber band stretches back, when Romeo thinks Juliet is dead in Romeo and Juliet, we know that Darth Vader is Luke's father earlier than Luke does in Star Wars.
Situational: a fire station burns down, a police station is robbed, a pilot has a fear of heights.
Practice
Name what type of irony this is.
- The man fell up the cliff.
- When the scary music comes on when a person opens a door in a horror movie.
- The teacher failed the test.
- The dog is as friendly as a rattlesnake.
- When you know that someone plans a murder but the victim doesn't.
- A vegan that ate sausage pizza.
- When you step on a banana and the banana slips on you.
- As pleasant as surgery.
- In a book, the author tells you there is a knife on the ceiling, but the character is oblivious to it.
- When you fail a test and say, "Fantastic!"
- This wine was as delicious as a glass of vinegar.
- When the narrator tells you there is a beast in the woods and someone goes in there.
- This steak was as tender as a leather boot.
- She was polite as a shark.
- They are as quite as explosions.
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Quiz Time
Please identify the type of irony.
Please identify the type of irony.
- The robbers returned the items.
- The anger management teacher gets angry.
- In a movie, you see the murderer walking behind the victim.
- When you crash your car and say, "Lucky me!"
- That murderer from question 3 gives his victim a present.
- As calm as a dog in heat.
- It's as devoid rain here as Seattle.
- In a book, when the narrator tells you that someone was in the character's house.
- In a movie, when you here that scary music as you enter the haunted house.
- You're as smart as lamb.
- His car's as clean as a dumpster.
- In a drama, when a guy sneaks up on the girl with a knife.
- The cops get arrested.
- The food eats the man.
- In Harry Potter, when Voldemort uses the Killing Curse on Harry.
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