What is Irony???

Question

irony in a stroy. Dramatic irony, verbal irony, situational irony

Answer 1

dramatic irony: when the audience/reader knows something the other characters do not (like the killer is hiding in the basement and the sorority girls go down there, not knowing)

verbal irony: when someone says something and the mean the opposite, or at least something different (like saracasm)

situation irony: when the reader/audience or a character expects one things and gets the opposite, or at least something different (like a bald barber)

Answer 2

Irony is the discrepancy between appearances and reality.

Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the character doesn't.
ex. Like the Psycho shower scene. Everyone knows he's waiting for her. Everyone except the character.

Verbal irony is saying one thing but meaning the opposite or something else. Like sarcasm.
ex."Good Job," as someone trips and falls.

Situational irony is an unexpected outcome.
ex. Rain on your wedding day. Dwarf winning slam dunk contest.

hope that helps =]

Answer 3

Irony is usually something that happens that you thought would never happen. The firehouse burned down to the ground is irony because that situation is never expected. Dramatic irony is usually something the reader knows and other (or certain) characters don't know.

Answer 4

Tragic (or dramatic) irony occurs when a character onstage is ignorant, but the audience watching knows his or her eventual fate, as in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

Socratic irony takes place when someone (classically a teacher) pretends to be foolish or ignorant, but is not (and the teaching-audience, but not the student-victim, realizes the teacher's ploy).
this is the closest to verbal irony, the use of a self depricating front to mock someone. as in "wow i love the way you realy make these speaches so eloquently mr bush"

Cosmic irony is a sharp incongruity between our expectation of an outcome and what actually occurs. as in the pepsi/coke example above.

Answer 5

Irony, from the Greek ειρων (self-deprecator), 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 generally understood (either at the time, or in the later context of history). Irony may also arise from a discordance between acts and results, especially if it is striking, and known to a later audience

Answer 6

Wikipedia has a good web page all about the different types of irony. It's lengthy, but you should check it out:




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

Answer 7

its like something that is really strange happening

ex-- a Pepsi truck with the driver drinking coke
after 9 months of no drinking at all a new mother finding a black fly in her chardonnay

stuff like that

Answer 8

When you say one thing but mean the opposite.

Answer 9

here is a reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony

i used it to study for my 9th rade finals.