Ironic or Not
A man gets a flat tire on a bumpy road.
What is, not really ironic at all?
"At least it's not raining." (It's pouring.)
Johnny showed up late to the convention, then fumbled his speech.
The soccer player scored a goal. His team lost.
The soccer player scored a goal -- and as a result, his team lost. For example, what if the soccer player was a star forward renowned for hogging the ball and taking risks, and in a fit of magnanimity and caution, he passed the ball back to the goalie, but his own hard pass went past the keeper into their own net...?
What was the name of the song we looked at yesterday?
What is Ironic?
A king asks an oracle whether his army will win a war against a mighty foe. The oracle says, "A great nation will fall." The king eagerly goes to battle. His own army is decimated. A great nation falls (his own).
What is, yes that's ironic.
Spoken during a film thriller: "No, don't open that door, you fool! The goblins are all in there!!"
What is dramatic irony?
Katie is in love with Keith.
Situational irony: What if James is doing everything he can to annoy Katie, but each of his actions makes her love him even more? Dramatic irony: James doesn't know, but the reader does, that Katie intends to ask him out.
Playing Among Us, a player is voted out of the game. But he was not the imposter.
To be discussed. If, in 40 previous games, he had been a successful imposter and bragged about his victories...? Or if we already knew who the imposter really was...?
The word irony is derived from this language.
What is Greek?
A tech company, in an effort to protect its intellectual property and domination over a market, actually ends up making it best-selling product obsolete.
What is situational irony?
"I was hoping you'd show up." Said by a superhero, trapped alone in a cave, with nowhere to run, when the most evil and powerful team of supervillains ever assembled shows up out of nowhere, intending to end the world.
What is verbal irony.
"Oh no! A giant bear!"
This could easily be verbal irony from a character, if we were all scared of a bear in the forest and a tiny super-cute panda bear shows up instead.
"I worked really hard to win this award."
To be discussed. Definitely could be verbal irony, if the award was given by accident to a bystander and they had to accept it in public.
This failed artist in The Last Leaf has his greatest success in his last piece of work.
This is ironic
A man transporting 100 spare tires in a truck gets a flat tire that none of his own tires can replace.
What is: yes, that's pretty ironic.
A surprise birthday party, to the people waiting at home to surprise the birthday person.
What is dramatic irony.
Charles is afraid of water balloons.
What if Charles is the owner, founder and manufacturer of World's Best Water Balloons? And in his effort to quell his fear of water balloons, he ended up making his fortune out of selling them?
"It's like rain on your wedding day..."
Romeo poisons himself, believing Juliet to be dead. The audience knows she is merely in a deep sleep. This is called...
What is dramatic irony?
Resulting from his own effort to seek out and 'release' the infant who will take over his kingdom as it is prophesied, a king inadvertently ends up adopting the very child who will usurp his throne.
What is: Yes that is biblically ironic.
A community, in order to protect itself against the pain of the past, ends up depriving its citizens of the very freedoms and joys of life that make human pain worth enduring in the first place.
What is situational irony.
I like following orders and instructions precisely.
I am an escaped convict who committed most of his crimes against authority figures and who must now follow instructions precisely in order not to get caught.
"Finders keepers."
This one's tough. Points for creativity.
A kind of verbal "irony."
sarcasm
overstatement
understatement