Irony
This type of irony is when you say the opposite of what you mean.
What is verbal irony?
Doing this helps us understand something that isn't directly stated.
What is infer?
The way that writers reveal information about their characters.
What is characterization?
What is a leg of lamb?
Mathilde Loisel wishes this about her life.
What is that she were rich?
This type of irony is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
This type of inference is when you come to a conclusion based on applying general rules to a specific setting.
What is deduction?
This is when the writer reveals something explicitly about a character.
What is direct characterization?
The reason that Mary Maloney practices her conversation in the mirror.
What is so she sounds "normal" and not suspicious?
The reason Mr. Nuttel is visiting the countryside.
What is he has a nervous condition/his doctor told him to go to the country?
This type of irony is when there is a difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.
What is situational irony?
This type of inference is when you form a general conclusion based on specific information you observe.
This is when the writer reveals about a character through their actions, words, and thoughts and the reader must infer to understand the character.
What is indirect characterization?
What is that the necklace Mathilde borrowed was fake?
The reason Vera gives for Mr. Nuttel running out so quickly from his visit.
What is she lies and says he is afraid of dogs?
If you say "It's such a lovely day" when it's horrible weather outside, this is what type of irony?
What is verbal irony?
This is the type of inference that detectives like Sherlock Holmes are known for using.
What is deduction?
Vera being described by the author as "a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen" is this type of characterization.
What is direct characterization?
This ironically happens to the murder weapon the police were searching for.
What is the police officers eat the murder weapon?
The type of irony in "The Necklace".
What is situational irony?
The audience knowing who the killer is in "Lamb to the Slaughter" is this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
The reader has to infer that Patrick Maloney tells his wife what in order for her to react the way she does.
What is that he is leaving/divorcing her?
Mrs. Sappleton yawning while Mr. Nuttel reveals his boring behavior is this type of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
The reason that Mr. Nuttel leaves in a hurry from the house he is visiting.
What is he believes the men returning from hunting are ghosts because of what Vera told him?
The situational irony of what happens to Mr. Nuttel while visiting the house in the countryside.
What is he was there to relax/recover for his nervous condition and he is frightened by Vera's lies?