can some1 explain "irony" and give an example.?

Question

“Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.” (p. 9)

could the second part me irony?

Answer 1

IRONY: dying in the living room..?

Answer 2

Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
Three kinds of irony:


1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.
2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.
Example:
"A fine thing indeed!" he muttered to himself.

Answer 3

Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. More generally, irony is understood as an aesthetic valuation, which is variously applied to texts, speech, events and even fashion. All the different senses of irony, however, revolve around the notion of incongruity, or a gap between our understanding and what actually happens. For instance, tragic irony occurs when a character onstage is ignorant, but the audience watching knows his or her eventual fate, as in Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King. Socratic irony takes place when someone pretends to be foolish or ignorant, but is not. Cosmic irony is a sharp incongruity between our expectations of things and what actually occurs, as if the universe were mocking us.

H. W. Fowler, in Modern English Usage, had this to say of irony:

Irony is a form of utterance that postulates a double audience, consisting of one party that hearing shall hear and shall not understand, and another party that, when more is meant than meets the ear, is aware, both of that “more” and of the outsider’s incomprehension.

Irony has some of its foundation in the onlooker’s perception of paradox. In June 2005, the State of Virginia Employment Agency, which handles unemployment compensation, announced that they would lay off 400 employees for lack of work because unemployment is so low in the state. The reader’s perception of a disconnection between common expectation, and the application of logic with an unexpected outcome, both has an element of irony in it and shows the connection between irony and humor, when the surprise startles us into laughter. Not all irony is humorous: “grim irony” and “stark irony” are familiar.

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can some1 explain "irony" and give an example.?
“Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.” (p. 9)

could the second part me irony?

Answer 5

Timothy probably gave the most comprehensive answer but in simpler terms irony is a situation where something happens that is so drastically different than what is expected that it is either sad or comic or both.

As I see it, the phrase that u have written would classify as oxymoron not Irony

Answer 6

Irony is a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band killed on a plane. Best definition of irony I have ever heard.

Answer 7

verbal irony (often sarcasm) - when what is said it the opposite of what is meant. Example: "Nice shirt." when you hate the shirt.

dramatic irony - when the audience knows something important that the character doesn't. Example: In "Oedipus Rex", the audience knows Oedipus' past, but he doesn't.

situation irony - when an example of a situation is the opposite of what is expected. Examples: a lifeguard drowns, a policeman is arrested, a fire station burns down.

The only ironic part of Alanis Morrisette's song "Ironic" is that NOTHING in the song is actually ironic (situational irony - with a title like that, you'd expect many examples of irony instead of none).

"A black fly in your Chardonnay"
"Rain on your wedding day"
"A free ride, when you've already paid"

As a friend of mine once said, "Alanis, these things aren't ironic; they just SUCK!"

Answer 8

“Nuns go by as quiet as lust"
that part would be irony, because nuns are supposed to be pure and virginal, and lust is a sexual word. It's irony because it's not the kind of descriptor you would expect to be associated with nuns.

"drunken men and sober eyes"
this is also irony becasue, once again, it's not how you woudl expect the author to describe someone who is drunk

Answer 9

I always think of the writer O. Henry. His writings usually ended with an ironic twist. An example is the story of the woman who cut her long hair to buy her husband a Christmas gift and at the same time the husband bought her a barrette. It went something like that anyway....an unexpected twist of fate.

Answer 10

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase, he kissed his kids good-bye. He waited his whole life to take that flight and as the plan crashed down he thought, "Well isn't this nice?"
And isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
From Ironic

Answer 11

irony is something that is said or done that is opposite of what the intentions were: example, you want people to be quiet, so you shout at them; because u are yelling, u are louder than them, but u Want it to be quiet. ironic.


Nuns go by as quiet as lust

Lust has a connotation of Negative Quietness (you are suppressing your sexual desires). Nuns Are Quiet, but are they so in a negative fashion? lust is there, but u suppress it. he is comparing nuns to be this way.. present, but ignored.

Drunken men and sober eyes sing

Drunken men do sing, but sober eyes in the same sentence is strange because sober means Not drunk...! the question is, why do drunken men and sober eyes do the same thing in the lobby of the Greek Hotel? it suggests to me that there are people who are watching what is going on in the lobby....

good luck~