Irony Test
25 Questions I 2409 Attempts I Created By joellewright 1156 days agoidentify different types of irony
Question Excerpt From Irony Test
| Q.1) | In real life, an ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, hopefully to save her life. On the way to the hospital the ambulance is hit by a semi truck and everyone on board the ambulance is killed. |
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| Q.2) | You work all afternoon cooking a fancy dinner for your boyfriend. When he takes his first bite, he spits it out into his napkin without you seeing and says to you, "Oh Sweetie, this is wonderful!" |
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| Q.3) | A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging. |
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| Q.4) | In your history book, you read about a young man in the Revolutionary War who kills a British soldier. That soldier who was killed turns out to be his favorite cousin. |
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Which of the following is an example of situational irony? |
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| Q.6) | Romeo arrives at the Capulet family tomb to find his love, Juliet supposedly dead. However, we the audience know that Juliet is not really dead, she merely took a potion to make it look like she was dead for her own motives. When the audience of a story knows more than the characters involved, what type of irony is employed? |
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| Q.7) | Which of the following is NOT an example of verbal irony? |
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| Q.8) | Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony? |
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| Q.9) | The son of the police chief is arrested for attempted burglary. |
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| Q.10) | The student in class who had the highest grades in middle school drops out of high school. This is an example of which type of irony? |
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| Q.11) | Any instance in which the narrator or a character says one thing but means something else is |
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| Q.12) | The discrepancy between the expected results in a situation and the actual results that occur is |
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| Q.13) | When the audience understands something that a character does not know, this is |
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| Q.14) | Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony. Which statement below demonstrates sarcasm? |
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| Q.15) | SItuational Irony occurs when what happens in the story is what is expected to happen. |
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| Q.16) | Verbal Irony is when the character says exactly what they mean. |
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If you call someone who has failed a math test "Einstein" you are using a form of what type of irony? |
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| Q.18) | Dramatic Irony occurs when the reader has information that one or more of the characters does not have. |
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| Q.19) | In "The Highwayman," when King George's men have Bess tied up, the highwayman doesn't know it, but we, the readers, know that a trap is set for him. This is an example of ________ irony? |
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"He waited his whole darn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he said, "Now isn't this nice?" - from the song "Ironic" by Alannis Morisette |
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| Q.21) | She met the man of her dreams and then met his gorgeous wife. |
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| Q.22) | In the children's story "Little Red Riding Hood" we know that the wolf has eaten the grandmother, but Little Red Riding Hood does not know that. |
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| Q.23) | 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. |
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| Q.24) | An old man won 100 million dollars in the lottery and then died the following day. |
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| Q.25) | Bob has waited all day long to take a cigarette break. As he walks outside, he sees that a NO SMOKING sign has just been posted. |
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Quiz Comments (1)
None of the situations I've read here are even ironic. How
am I supposed to differentiate between the three types of
ironies when none of these situations are ironic?posted by:Guest 63 days ago
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