Irony.notebook
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Irony
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IRONY
Irony is a term with a range of meanings, all of them involving some sort of discrepancy or incongruity (that is, a disconnect between what is expected and what actually occurs). It should not be confused with sarcasm, which is simply language designed to cause pain. Irony is used to suggest the difference between appearance and reality, between expectation and fulfillment. Aug 20­12:32 PM
Types of irony include the following:
Verbal irony occurs when the opposite is said from what is intended. For example, when a wife says to her husband who has just bought a car they cannot afford, “Time to go home, Bill Gates,” she is using verbal irony. What's the irony?
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Dramatic irony is the contrast between what a character says or knows and what the reader knows to be true. For example, in Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, Othello believes Iago to be his best friend and advisor, while the audience knows that Iago hates Othello and is doing everything in his power to destroy Othello.
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How is this dramatic
irony?
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Irony of situation is discrepancy between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between what exists and what would seem appropriate. Examples could be; a firehouse burning down, or a person being killed by being run over by an ambulance, a teacher failing a class
a police officer getting a ticket
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DIRECTIONS: Read the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall. The poem is about the 1963 bombing of a church in which four little African­American girls were killed. Ballad of Birmingham
(On the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963)
"Mother dear, may I go downtown Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?"
"No, baby, no, you may not go, For the dogs are fierce and wild, And clubs and hoses, guns and jails Aren't good for a little child."
"But, mother, I won't be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham To make our country free."
"No, baby, no, you may not go, For I fear those guns will fire. But you may go to church instead And sing in the children's choir."
She has combed and brushed her night­dark hair, And bathed rose petal sweet, And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, And white shoes on her feet.
The mother smiled to know that her child Was in the sacred place, But that smile was the last smile To come upon her face.
For when she heard the explosion, Her eyes grew wet and wild. She raced through the streets of Birmingham Calling for her child.
She clawed through bits of glass and brick, Then lifted out a shoe. "O, here's the shoe my baby wore, But, baby, where are you?"
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What is the irony in this poem?
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