Irony
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 - The opposite of what you expect, or when
appearance differs from reality.
 Synonyms: incongruous, incompatible, out of place,
odd, or bizarre
 Antonym: appropriate or fitting
Verbal irony
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 the intentional use of words to suggest a meaning
other than literal: "What a mansion!" (said of a
shack);
 "There's nothing like sunshine!" (said on a foggy
day).
 Verbal irony that is calculated to make bitter, cutting
remarks that hurt someone is called sarcasm.
 ("Some friend you are!" said to the friend that will
not offer help.)
Situational or Cosmic
Irony
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 when something is incongruous.
 It is like a twist of fate; for example, (The Olympic
swimmer who drowns in her bathtub).
 Also, when one is stalled in a traffic jam behind a
Federal Express truck, it is ironic because “express”
means fast or rapid.
 Having to give birth in a graveyard would be ironic
Dramatic irony
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 When the reader or audience knows something
(implications) that a character does not know
 or when there is a discrepancy between what the
character believes and what the audience understands to
be true:
 The character thinks her husband is being a jerk, but we
know that he has a surprise clandestine party planned.
 In Breaking Bad the DEA agent is unknowingly the
brother- in – law to the drug lord, a former science teacher
who needed money to pay for his cancer treatments
Assignment
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 Frayer Model for Irony (examples and non-examples
from your own life)
 Ironic short story (type or neatly handwritten)
 One to two pages
 On the top – before you start your story- state why
your story is ironic in one sentence
 (i.e., “My story is ironic because the student teaches
the teacher a lesson.”)