Mrs. Medlock Irony Practice

1. Match the following

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2. When the audience understands something that a character does not know, this is

Dramatic irony

Situational irony

Verbal irony

3. The son of the police chief is arrested for attempted burglary.

Verbal irony

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

4. Verbal Irony is when the character says exactly what they mean.

True

False

5. 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?

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

6. An old man won 100 million dollars in the lottery and then died the following day.

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

7. 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.

Situational irony

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

8. 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!"

Situational irony

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

9. Any instance in which the narrator or a character says one thing but means something else is

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

Situational irony

10. Dramatic Irony occurs when the reader has information that one or more of the characters does not have.

True

False

11. She met the man of her dreams and then met his gorgeous wife.

Verbal irony

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

12. 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.

Situational irony

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

13. Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?

A mother expecting her children to do well in school, and they make the honor roll.

A man meets his long-lost son but doesn't know it, although the reader does.

A little girl can see the future.

A teacher tells her students they did well on a test, but actually they all failed.

14. 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?

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

Situational irony

15. 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.

Verbal irony

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

16. If you call someone who has failed a math test "Einstein" you are using a form of what type of irony?

Verbal irony

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

17. The discrepancy between the expected results in a situation and the actual results that occur is

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

Situational irony

18. SItuational Irony occurs when what happens in the story is what is expected to happen.

True

False

19. Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony. Which statement below demonstrates sarcasm?

A basketball fan remarks, "Watching Michael Jordan play ball knocks my socks off!"

A soccer fan remarks, "That goalie is in way over his head."

A football fan remarks, "That receiver's face was as white as a ghost, as the ball whizzed past his hands."

A baseball fan remarks, "I just love lots of homework on opening night of the World Series!"

20. Which of the following is an example of situational irony?

The cat ran away from the dog.

She told everyone what a beautiful day it was.

A vampire has a cross in his house.

Penny is beautiful.

21. 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.

Situational irony

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

22. 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

Situational irony

23. 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.

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

Situational irony

24. Which of the following is NOT an example of verbal irony?

A left handed person is called "Lefty"

A tall person is called "Shorty

An arrogant criminal gets caught.

A best selling writer's latest novel is a flop.