“Lamb to the Slaughter”
Heinz president reveals he is allergic to
tomatoes
X-Games star seriously injured while
riding scooter
Bill Gates’ personal computer hacked by
teenager
A difference between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning
and intention
What happens is the opposite
of what the characters or
reader expect.
A difference between what
the characters think and
what the audience/reader
knows.
Mr. and Mrs. White receive
their 200 pounds, but at the
expense of their son.
While a teenage character is
telling her friend how ugly
the principal is, he is
standing right behind them.
Words are used to
suggest the opposite of
what is meant.
The town of Sleepy
Hollow is anything but
sleepy with the
Headless Horseman
on the loose.
Decide which type of IRONY is being shown by the example:
Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a story
of mistaken identity in which the
audience is aware of the true identities
of the characters involved, but the
characters are often confused because
of disguises.
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Situational Irony
C. Verbal Irony
Decide which type of IRONY is being shown by the example:
The protagonist in “The Necklace” works
for years to replace an expensive
necklace that she borrowed and lost only
to learn in the end that the necklace was
a fake.
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Situational Irony
C. Verbal Irony
Decide which type of IRONY is being shown by the example:
You buy a pizza at full price after looking
all over the house and not finding your
coupon. You return home with the pizza
and grab a paper plate out of the
cupboard. Just as you are about to eat a
piece of pizza, you notice the coupon on
top of the plate.
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Situational Irony
C. Verbal Irony
Decide which type of IRONY is being shown by the example:
Your friend asks you how you did on
your math test. You failed, but you
sarcastically respond, “It went great!”
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Situational Irony
C. Verbal Irony
Decide which type of IRONY is being shown by the example:
In “The Most Dangerous Game” the
antagonist kidnaps and hunts people.
When he says, “We’ll visit my training
school…It’s in the cellar. I have about a
dozen pupils down there,” he is referring
to captives and a prison.
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Situational Irony
C. Verbal Irony
Decide which type of IRONY is being shown by the example:
You are watching a movie. The shot
shows a split screen on which the viewer
can see two characters talking on the
phone, but they can’t see each other.
The two characters have mistaken each
others’ voices for different characters.
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Situational Irony
C. Verbal Irony
The perspective from which the story is told; Who is the narrator?
The narrator is a
part of the story.
We know only
that character’s
thoughts and
feelings.
The narrator is NOT a part
of the story. We know the
thoughts and feelings of
only the main character.
The narrator is NOT a part of
the story. We know the
thoughts and feelings of ALL of
the characters.
• Emotional response
• Identify and explain some instances of
irony
• Identify the point of view…how would
the story be different if told from a
different point of view