Irony
The Opposite of What is Expected
0 VERBAL
0 Opposite of what someone has said is meant
0 SITUATIONAL
0 The outcome is opposite of what is expected
0 DRAMATIC
0 The audience knows more about the situation
than the characters
Happy Word Wednesday!
0 In your groups, you will be given a term
for our Greek Tragedy unit. You will
have five minutes to prepare a skit
that both defines and uses the
vocabulary words in your
performance.
0 You may receive one to two words!
Verbal Irony
0 Opposite of what someone has said is meant. It is intentional to
say one thing and mean the opposite.
0 “Soft like concrete”
0 “Clear like mud”
0 “Pleasant like a root canal”
0 Verbal irony sounds sarcastic but the purpose of sarcasm is to
cause pain or harm. Verbal irony is just to imply the opposite
meaning.
0 Sarcasm can be a form of verbal irony but verbal irony is not
necessarily sarcastic.
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiR-bnCHIYo
Situational Irony
IS NOT JUST COINCIDENCE.
0 Situational irony occurs only when the exact opposite of
what is meant to happen, happens.
0 When you wash your car and then it rains…Is that ironic?
0 There MUST be something that leads a person to think that
a particular event or situation is unlikely happen for it to be
ironic.
0 When a meteorologist washes their car and it gets rained on
would be ironic because a meteorologist would expect it to be
sunny since it is his/her job to predict the weather.
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqg6RO8c_W0
Dramatic Irony
0 The audience knows more about the situation than the
characters.
0 This form of irony is used as a tool for engaging the audience by
building curiosity about what will happen since the audience
knows something that the characters don’t.
0 By allowing the reader and audience to know more things ahead
of the characters, the irony puts the reader and audience above
the characters and encourages them to hope, to fear, and
anticipate the moment when the character would find out the
truth behind the situations and events of the story.
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZFYuX84n1U
Performance of Antigone
0 You will be receiving a grade for your
participation in Sophocles’ Antigone based on
your engaging performance.
0 For today’s performance, we need:
0 Narrator: Kalei Jones
0 Eurydice: Taylor Custer
0 Creon: Ryan Hanson
0 Leader: Jessi Linan
0 Messenger: Taylor Custer
0 Chorus (of 5): James Etten, Christian Tran, Caylie
Charlton
Examining Irony in
Antigone
0How does Sophocles use irony to create
what Aristotle calls catharsis (pity and
fear) in the audience? Consider
moments of verbal, situational, and
dramatic irony to create the tragic effect
of the play.
Antigone
Irony Assignment
You will explore the answer to these questions though a
creative representation of the irony in Sophocles’ Antigone.
0 You will select a moment of irony from the play. On the front,
you will draw a visual representation of the irony (comics,
symbolism, etc.). On the front you need to have two quotes:
one of the expectation and one with the reversal WITH a
proper in-text citation.
0 On the back, you will write a paragraph answering our
essential question: How does Sophocles use irony to create
catharsis? You must use at least two cycles of
claim/evidence/commentary.
0 HONORS: You must use three cycles of
claim/evidence/commentary and use at least four of the
Greek tragedy vocabulary terms to add depth to your
response.
Homework
0 Your Irony assignment is due on Friday.
Introduction to Antigone
What is the role of the Chorus? In
your journals, write down the role of
the Chorus, as we watch a short
introduction to the play.
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cor2vJ5RTTQ
Is Creon A Bad King?
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9-W66xB-fM
Is Creon a Bad Father?
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRA0auYwBFU
Antigone Irony
Assignment Work Time
You will explore the answer to these questions though a
creative representation of the irony in Sophocles’ Antigone.
0 You will select a moment of irony from the play. On the front,
you will draw a visual representation of the irony (comics,
symbolism, etc.). On the front you need to have two quotes:
one of the expectation and one with the reversal WITH a
proper in-text citation.
0 On the back, you will write a paragraph answering our
essential question: How does Sophocles use irony to create
catharsis? You must use at least two cycles of
claim/evidence/commentary.
0 HONORS: You must use three cycles of
claim/evidence/commentary and use at least four of the
Greek tragedy vocabulary terms to add depth to your
response.
Homework
0 Antigone Irony assignment is due on Monday.
Irony Gallery Walk
0 As you walk around the room to enjoy your classmates’
analysis of irony, complete the following tasks:
0 Make a list of ironic moments in Antigone. The more
instances of irony and the more quotes you record, the
more prepared you will be to write your essay (and hence,
the easier it will be.)
0 Make a mental note of affirmations that you would like to
share (think of more sophisticated affirmations than soand-so is a good artist).
Antigone
Socratic Seminar Preparation
0 Answer the questions in complete sentences to
prepare for the Antigone Socratic Seminar, worth
60 points, on Tuesday.
0 This counts as a unit test.
0 Prep assignments will not earn any late
credit (as they are PREPARATION).
0 DUE TOMORROW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzmZceG6eoo
Heinz Dilemma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJ07klMhr0