Irony
A housewife kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb when he asks for a divorce. The police come looking for evidence and unknowingly dispose of it when they are fed the murder weapon for dinner.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The author's underlying statement about life or human nature
What is theme?
Sometimes an author includes SPECIFIC ones of these to reveal some theme in a story.
What are details?
A potential theme of Wife's Story.
What is that individuals are sometimes not who they seem to be?
The "treasure" that is the Treasure of Lemon Brown.
What is newspaper clippings and a harmonica?
If you were suffering from a bad bout of food poisoning, you might say, “Wow, I feel great today.”
What is verbal irony?
One thing can represent something else
What is symbolism?
The true historical event that When My Name Was Keoko takes place during.
What is the Japanese occupation of Korea?
The ironic twist in Ruthless.
What is that the man was poisoned by his own whiskey bottle, which was intended to poison an intruder.
The ironic twist in "The Gift of the Magi"?
What is that each person sold the thing that the other bought a present for?
The main character hides under the bed where the killer is hiding (the audience knows the killer is there but the protagonist doesn’t.)
What is dramatic irony?
Words that create a picture in your mind
What is imagery?
The genre that "When My Name Was Keoko" is.
What is historical fiction?
The ironic twist in Charles.
What is that there was never a boy names Charles, and that the person getting in trouble was Leslie the whole time.
The ironic twist in The Treasure of Lemon Brown?
What is that Lemon Brown's treasure was not really worth anything?
Two desperate men decide to get rich quick by kidnapping a child and holding him for ransom. However, the child in question turns out to be a horrendous burden and, after some negotiating, the men end up paying the parents to take him off their hands.
What is situational irony?
A reference to another story
What is allusion?
The question reader's can ask themselves to determine the theme.
What is the author...
What is the author saying to me?
The ironic twist in The Wife's Story.
What is that the wife is a wolf and the husband turned into a human.
The gifts that Jim and Della give to each other in "The Gift of the Magi"
What are combs and a watch chain?
Dorothy longs to go home and fulfills the wizard’s demanding list of tasks only to find out she had the ability to return home all along.
Situational irony
The beginning of a story
What is exposition?
The reason why readers pay attention to theme
What is to understand the story better?
A potential theme in Ruthless.
What is that taking justice into your own hands is never a good idea?
What is the change that Greg and Lemon Brown experience in The Treasure of Lemon Brown?
They go from being hostile/skeptical to friendly and respectful.