Isn

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Isnt it

• IRONIC?

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Picture slide

• Oh, look!
• A Dead End
• sign located..

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Learn To Fly Here!?
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Stops Rust?
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Hmmm..
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Irony is defined as

• an outcome of events contrary to what was, or
  might have been, expected

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The following 3 slides are courtesy of

• If I were in charge of the networks-excerpt
  from George Carlins
• book, Brain Droppings

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Irony is not the same as coincidence

• Irony deals with opposites it has nothing to do
  with coincidence. If two baseball players from
  the same hometown, on different teams, receive
  the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is
  a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime
  statistics identical to his fathers it will not
  be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

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Irony is not the same as coincidence

• If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is
  killed by a runaway truck, he is the victim of an
  accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he
  is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But
  if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he
  is the victim of an irony.

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Irony is not the same as coincidence

• Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was
  paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now
  Darryl Stingleys son plays football, and if the
  son should become paralyzed while playing, it
  will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If
  Darryl Stingleys son paralyzes someone else,
  that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes
  Jack Tatums son that will be precisely ironic.

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Well be looking at three different types of
irony
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Verbal Irony

• This is the contrast between what is said and
  what is meant. Most sarcastic comments are
  ironic.
• For instance, the person who says, "Nice going,
  Einstein," isn't really paying anyone a
  compliment.

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Can you think of another example of something a
person would say to someone else, when they dont
really mean it?

• Most likely, your example is VERBAL IRONY.

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Dramatic Irony

• Sometimes as we read we are placed in the
  position of knowing more than what one character
  knows. Because we know something the character
  does not, we read to discover how the character
  will react when he or she learns the truth of the
  situation.
• It's when you know the boogeyman is hiding in the
  attic, but the hero of the movie doesn't know
  that. You want him to get a clue and stay away
  from the attic. "Don't open that door! Get out of
  the house!" The irony is that the hero thinks he
  is safe, when you know he's in danger.
• There is that element of contrast again.

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Can you think of a movie youve seen or a book
youve read which demonstrates DRAMATIC IRONY?
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Situational Irony

• It is the contrast between what happens and what
  was expected. Irony of situation is often
  humorous, such as when a prank backfires on the
  prankster.
• It's the equivalent of a person spraying shaving
  cream in his own face when he was trying to spray
  his best friend.
• (Lets watch a little cartoon, shall we?)

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Think you can spot the difference between irony
and coincidence (or just bad luck?)
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Lets have a listen to Alanis Morissettes song
Ironic
When this song came out, many people gave Alanis
Morissette a hard time, saying she didnt know
what irony really is.
What do you think?
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• 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
• And isn't it ironic... don't you think

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• 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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• 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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• 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
• And who would've thought... it figures

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
• Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
• Helping you out

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Figure it out!

• Go through each example in your group and decide
  whether or not you think they are ironic.
• WANT A CHALLENGE? If the example is not ironic,
  how could you change it a tiny bit to add irony?

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Go!
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Stop.

• What did your group decide?
• Did any group take the challenge?

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Lets see how someone else added to Alanis
Morissettes lyrics to make them ironic.
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Lines From Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," Modified
to Actually Make them Ironicby Patrick Cassels
on January 12, 2007
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• An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the
  lottery and died the next day... of chronic
  emphysema from inhaling all of the little bits of
  latex coming off of the lottery tickets he
  scratched every day for 30 years.

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• A black fly in your Chardonnay... that you poured
  to celebrate finally getting rid of all of the
  flies in your winery in southern France.

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• A death row pardon two minutes too late...
  because the governor was too busy watching Dead
  Man Walking (a movie about a man on death row.)

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• Rain on your wedding day...
• to Ra, the Egyptian sun-god.

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• 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... now I'll never make it to the
  National Association of Aviophobics (people who
  are afraid to fly) conference in Reno, NV.

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• A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break... at
  the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco corporate offices in
  Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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• Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a
  knife... to cut your sandwich in the break room
  of the Specialty Knife Store.

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• Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his
  beautiful wife... who happens to be the female
  psychiatrist you recently hired in hopes of
  helping you learn how to pick the right man for
  yourself.