1. Happy Thursday!
Turn in your pink student/guardian contracts and life graphs to the table at the front of the room (where the supply tower is) BEFORE THE BELL RINGS! Make 2 piles! Take out 1 sheet of paper for some note- taking!

2. Irony
A Brief Review

3. Bell Ringer Discuss the following three questions with your groups:
When you say “isn’t it ironic,” what does that really mean?
How would you define “irony”?
Why do you think authors use irony?

4. What is Irony?
Definition: an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
Basically, the opposite happens of what you might expect to happen.
There are 3 types of irony: situational, dramatic, and verbal.

5. Situational Irony
Situational irony occurs when the final outcome is contradictory to what was expected.
Usually the episodes in the plot of a story will lead the audience to expect a particular resolution or ending. If such an expected outcome fails and instead an opposite outcome happens, the incongruity is called “situational irony.”
Example: A woman has been saving painfully to buy a golden watch. Just hours after buying the watch, her daughter arrives home with the same watch as a gift for her!

6. Dramatic Irony
Dramatic irony is most commonly used by storytellers, in plays, in theatre, and in movies
Dramatic irony is a plot device used to create situations where the reader knows more about the events in the story than the main characters.
Example: Think about every horror movie ever. We know the killer is upstairs, but that dumb chick who always dies first doesn’t, so we’re left screaming at the TV, “DON’T GO UPSTAIRS!!!”

7. Verbal Irony
Verbal irony occurs when speakers say the opposite of what they mean.
Example: Right before your friend takes the stage for the spring musical, you tell her “break a leg!” Obviously you don’t really wish she’d break a leg, but it’s just an old theatre expression to mean “good luck!”
Example: When you spill something on your shirt and you exclaim, “Oh, that’s just great!”

8. Which Type of Irony Is This?

9. Which Type of Irony Is This?

10. Which Type of Irony Is This?

11. Which Type of Irony Is This?
When watching a talk show, the audience knows why a person has been brought on the show. However, the person in the chair doesn’t know that they are about to be reunited with a long lost friend!

12. Which Type of Irony Is This?

13. Evaluate Your Learning
Choose one of type of irony: situational, dramatic, or verbal.
Create a “comic” that represents your chosen type of irony.
Think about the examples we looked at for inspiration.