Irony, in literature can be anything from sarcasm to a shocking plot twist that can be inconvenient to the characters toward the end. A type of irony is situational which is where something very unexpected shows up at the last minute making the outcome of the story completely different then you expected. Such as the one in Lord of the Flies that effects one special character named Simon, and really almost all the characters.…
Ironic is characterized by often poignant differences or incongruities between what is expected and what actually is. There are many ironic events that happen to the narrator in the short story: The ironic…
Another type of irony that authors use is dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows more than the characters. The first example of dramatic irony…
Secondly, situational irony is a discrepancy, or difference between what's expected and what really happens. One such example of this type of irony occurs for the accused; The punishment of "witches". Do they die because they truthfully say they aren't witches or live with the lie that they are? Goody Proctor was a genuine person, and yet died with the truth that she was innocent of witchcraft. What is more important, morals, or your own life? You're the judge of the case.…
Irony is a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy. In the story, The Pedestrian Bradbury uses irony to write the whole story. Mr. Mead wasn’t doing anything wrong, he was just walking and yet he was arrested. Another example of irony is in the story Fahrenheit 451 when he explains the fireman’s theory. “Plant the books, turn in the alarm, and see the fireman’s houses burn, is that what you mean?” (85). The wrong is so obvious in both of these examples but things that are wrong still happen and irony is used to make us see these wrongs…
Situational Irony: something takes place that a character or reader does not expect to happen. For example, people note the irony when a fire station burns down.…
Verbal irony has a meaning (often contradictory) concealed behind the apparent meaning of a word or phrase in order to get a point across; whereas situation irony is often coincidental and contradictory to the situation at hand in an improbable way. Throughout the story “A Cask of Amontillado”, Edger Allen Poe uses verbal and situational irony to add a touch of macabre humor, build suspense, and foreshadow the ending.…
There are various examples in which the dramatic irony is explicit. The King has high expectations of the deeds that Macbeth is going to fulfill. He trusts Macbeth and he has just been assigned to be Thane of Cawdor. “He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”. The King is referring to the former Thane of Cawdor who betrayed him, he’s committing the same mistake twice, but he seems to be too naïve, not considering the fact that maybe Macbeth can betray him too. Macbeth is not planning on doing so yet, but he is being tempted to. The…
use the the money for charity, but he, like many other Pardoner's in his time,…
Dramatic Irony occurs when a reader or viewer knows more about a situation than the characters do. Montresor in The Cask of Amontillado when Fortunato is coughing he tells him we can go back because Fortunato is sick and Montresor tells him you’re a man to be missed because of his fame and money. Fortunato says I cannot die of a cough. Montresor like in the movie says true and by that you can tell Montresor is going to do…
Dramatic irony appears once in the Ransom of Red Chief. Dramatic irony is an irony when the readers know something that the characters in the story don’t know. Dramatic irony took part when Johnny is just behind Bill, while he told Sam that he sent Johnny the back to his home. After that, Sam asked Bill about medical problem, because he knew that Bill would probably shock when he see the boy again. O. Henry describes that Johnny is right behind Bill, the reader know, but Bill doesn’t know yet. For example,…
In the short story, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe uses two types of irony, dramatic and verbal. Dramatic irony is when the reader perceives something that a character in the story does not. Poe uses this type of irony in the character Fortunato. Verbal irony is when the character says one thing and means something else. This type of irony can be recognized in the statements that the characters, Fortunato and Montresor, say to one another.…
The main example of irony would probably be how the town seems and acts to be like a group of friends and a tight-knit community, but by the end of the play, the town has turned against each other and it turns into a question of morality how everything flips upside-down. The society that this town has thrived and lived in, turn’s bad, when lies are thrown around and the wrong people realize how easy power can be achieved. The entire play is full of verbal and dramatic irony because in retrospect, every ounce of the trials, are indeed ironic.…
Secondly, Dramatic irony is a contradiction between what a character thinks and says and what the audience or reader knows is true. For example, Act V scene iii lines 92-96 Romeo states, “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath…” Romeo talks of Juliet’s death, but yet he does not know she is only sleeping. The audience has already known that Juliet took Friar Lawrence’s sleeping potion to skip the wedding of her and Paris so she can be with her love Romeo. The audience knows more than the character.…
Three policemen came to inspect the house because a shriek had been heard by a neighbor. The readers know that the reason a shriek was heard is because the narrator killed the old man and while the narrator was killing him, he let out shriek, but only once. This is an example of dramatic irony because the readers know that the narrator killed the old man which resulted in the shriek. However, the policemen don’t know that.…