Types of irony
Sarcasm.
What is verbal irony?
A fire station ____.
What is catching fire?
The irony of American “football”.
The sport is played with your hands.
Irony about a mother.
An ironic situation with a mother.
“This is the third time we have bumped into each other today! Isn’t that ironic?”
What is coincidence.
When the reader knows more than the character.
What is dramatic irony?
A soccer player not owning a ___.
What is Soccer ball?
In the book and movie The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus Waters survives cancer, yet he always puts a cigarette in his mouth and doesn’t light it. Why is this ironic?
Cigarettes can cause cancer. He does this to have control over something that could kill him.
Irony about a man who likes to drive trucks.
He actually drives a sedan.
“My wife is a flight attendant, but she is scared of heights! How ironic!”
What is irony.
When what happens is the opposite of what is expected.
What is situational irony?
A super model who hates being ___.
What is photographed?
What book is the most shoplifted in America? (Think about morality).
The Bible.
Irony about a doctor.
The doctor doesn’t take care of himself, the doctor never goes to the doctor, etc.
“Wow! We share the same birthday! How ironic!”
What is coincidence.
A mother stating after seeing her son’s messy room, “Wow! This room is so clean!”
What is verbal irony?
An owner of a bakery who hates eating ___.
What is deserts?
What is the irony in the movie The Substance?
Demi Moore’s character wants to look and feel younger but ends up destroying herself in the process.
Irony about a librarian.
They do not like reading, they don’t own any books, etc.
“It must have been fate that I ended up moving to Italy even though I never expressed wanting to move there.”
What is coincidence?
A cat lover being allergic to cats.
What is situational irony?
Someone with a fear of water going to ___.
What is a water park?
Justin Rosenstein invented the like button for facebook in 2007 and later became part of the platform in 2009. He said he created it so that people could create “a world in which people uplift each other rather than tear each other down.” What is the irony?
Social media bias, like = judgement, led to mental health crisis.
A friend that knows a secret
A story about a friend who has more knowledge then they let on.
“Singing in front of a bunch of random strangers helped me get over my stage fright.”
What is irony?