"The Gift of the Magi" and Irony Quiz

How much did Della receive for selling her hair?

$20

Irony

A contrast between expectation and reality (ex: Oh, sure, I just love to have four papers due on the same day.")

What did Jim buy for Della?

A set of beautiful combs

situational irony

An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

Diction

Choice of words

An all-important letter, thrust under a door, by chance slides beneath a carpet and is not received. This type of irony might be

Dramatic Irony Verbal Irony Irony of Fate Situational Irony

Her refusal to accept change is symbolized by the >>>

Invisible Watch Not burying her dad Murdering of Homer ALL OF THE ABOVE (CORRECT)

verbal irony (sarcasm)

The meaning is far from the usual meaning of the words - the opposite.

All the following are examples of foreshadowing except:

The smell outside the house. Rat poison. The sound of silence. (CORRECT) The missing suitor.

"Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer" according to paragraph 34. The irony illustrates that young love can't be measured. True or false?

True

Of the "one dollar and eighty-seven cents," sixty cents of it was in pennies.

True

Tone

Whatever leads us to infer the author's ATTITUDE.

cosmic irony (irony of fate)

expectations are unexpectedly destroyed by bad fortune or an uncaring god

Della and Jim lived in a fancy apartment that rented for $8.

false

Minimalists

flat, laid-back, unemotional tone in an appropriately bare, unadorned style (ex: Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason)

The wise men were know as:

magi

The theme of "The Gift of the Magi" is

money can buy happiness the love of gift-giving (marked) it's better to give than to receive the wholehearted endorsement of the beauty of young love

The theme of "The Gift of the Magi" is

money can buy happiness (INCORRECT) the love of gift-giving (INCORRECT) it's better to give than to receive the wholehearted endorsement of the beauty of young love

Style

the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work (ex: length and complexity of sentences)

What did Della buy for Jim?

watch chain

dramatic irony

when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't