Irony

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Irony

• Frosh Laptop English

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• The following slides contain one of the
  following types of irony. As you view the
  slides, decide which type of irony you think is
  being used in the slide.
• Dramatic Irony The reader or audience knows
  something the character does not.
• Verbal Irony The writer or speaker says one
  thing, but really means something completely
  different. The statement takes on a double
  meaning.
• Situational Irony What is expected to happen is
  the opposite of what occurs.

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Irony 1

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 2

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 3

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 4

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 5

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 6

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 7

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 8

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 9

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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Irony 10

• What type of irony?
• Explain.

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IronicAlanis Morisette

• An old man turned ninety-eight
• He won the lottery and died the next day
• It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
• It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
• Isn't it ironic... don't you think?

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IronicAlanis Morisette

• It's like rain on your wedding day
• It's a free ride when you've already paid
• It's the good advice that you just didn't take
• Who would've thought... it figures

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IronicAlanis Morisette

• Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
• He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids
  goodbye
• He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
  
• And as the plane crashed down he thought
• "Well isn't this nice..."
• And isn't it ironic... don't you think?

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IronicAlanis Morisette

• Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
• When you think everything's okay and everything's
  going right
• And life has a funny way of helping you out when
• You think everything's gone wrong and everything
  blows up
• In your face

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IronicAlanis Morisette

• A traffic jam when you're already late
• A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
• It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need
  is a knife
• It's meeting the man of my dreams
• And then meeting his beautiful wife
• And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
• A little too ironic... and yeah I really do
  think...

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Lifes True Ironies

• The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after
  the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was 80,000.
  At a special ceremony, two of the most
  expensively saved animals were released back into
  the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers.
  A minute later they were both eaten by a killer
  whale.
• A psychology student in New York rented out her
  spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him
  constantly and study his reactions. After weeks
  of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly
  with an axe, leaving her mentally retarded.
• In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an
  attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record.
  Suffering from the flu, he came down eight hours
  short of the 400-day record, to find that his
  sponsor had gone bankrupt, his girlfriend had
  left him and his phone and electricity had been
  cut off.
• A woman came home to find her husband in the
  kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked
  like a wire running from his waist towards the
  electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from
  the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy
  plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm
  in two places. Till that moment he had been
  happily listening to his Walkman.
• Two animal rights activists were protesting the
  cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in
  Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of
  them, escaped through a broken fence and
  stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters
  to death.
• Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough
  postage on a letter bomb. It came back with
  "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it
  was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.