Types Of Irony

What type of Irony is this? A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls into the pool.

Situational Irony This is ironic because the child ends up wetter than he would have been, thwarting his expectations of what would happen when he ran away from the water balloon.

What type of Irony is this? DANFORTH, reaches out and holds her face, then: Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery? (In a crisis of indecision she cannot speak.) Answer my question! Is your husband a lecher!ELIZABETH, faintly: No, sir.DANFORTH: Remove her!PROCTOR: Elizabeth, tell the truth!DANFORTH: She has spoken. Remove her!PROCTOR, crying out: Elizabeth, I have confessed it!ELIZABETH: Oh, God! (The door closes behind her.)

Situational Irony - John Proctor's wife Elizabeth is famous for her honesty. Thus, in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, Proctor expects her to tell the truth. He has already confessed to his adultery, but to protect him Elizabeth lies for the first time, condemning him to death.

What type of Irony is this? "O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."

Situational Irony - Romeo finds Juliet drugged and assumes she is dead. He kills himself but then she awakens, sees that he is dead and kills herself. This is ironic because both lovers killed themselves over a mistaken assumption, leading to a tragic outcome instead of the happy ending the lovers expected.

What type of Irony is this? A husband realizes it's his wife's birthday and rushes to make dinner reservations, only to find that she has forgotten what day it is and stayed at work late

Situational Irony - The husband expected to treat his wife, by the plans end up ruined anyway. It's only the reason why that's unexpected.

What type of Irony is this? A marriage counselor files for divorce.

Situational Irony - This is ironic because the expectation is that a professional who coaches couples through rough patches would herself have a strong marriage.

What type of Irony is this? "Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."

Situational Irony - Though seawater is all around, the mariner is dying of thirst because it is salty and cannot be drunk.

What type of Irony is this? A fire station burns down.

Situational Irony- This is unexpected because one would assume the fire chief would keep his own building safe

Situational irony

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

What type of Irony is this? Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. The animals knew that this was not the case.

Dramatic Irony

What type of irony is this? Sometimes a person is in disguise and the other character talks with him as if he is someone else.

Dramatic Irony - Since this is known by the audience, it adds to the humor of the dialogue.

What type of Irony is this? Girl in a horror film hides in a closet where the killer just went.

Dramatic irony - The audience knows the killer is there.

What type of Irony is this? In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows Juliet is in a drugged sleep, so when Romeo thinks she is dead and kills himself

Dramatic irony - This creates shock for the audience when Juliet is actually still alive and then follows up to kill herself to be with Romeo

Verbal Irony

Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.

Dramatic irony

Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.

What type of Irony is this? A team of co-workers is about to begin a major project when someone asks if they can have a five-minute break. The team leader responds with, "Sure! It's not like we have anything better to do."

Verbal Irony

What type of Irony is this? After a terrible blind date, a woman calls her friend and says, "He was as friendly as a rattlesnake."

Verbal Irony

What type of Irony is this? Saying "Oh, fantastic!" when the situation is actually very poor

Verbal Irony

What type of Irony is this? Someone shopping for a mattress lays down on a really firm one and says, "This bed's about as soft as a brick."

Verbal Irony

What type of Irony is this? When the air conditioning goes out on a hot summer afternoon, a tenant says to their landlord, "It's about as cool as the fires of Hell."

Verbal Irony