Fun Quiz: The Different Types Of Irony
6 Questions
| Total Attempts: 153
This quiz gives examples of verbal, dramatic, and situational irony and asks for what type of irony is present.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What type of irony is present: Lois Lane, a reporter at the Daily Planet, is in love with the superhero Superman. She is obsessed with him, and always asks her co-worker, Clark Kent for information about him. She thinks that Clark and Superman are friends. However, Clark is actually Superman in disguise and is very much in love with Lois, but she won’t give Clark the time of day.
- A.
Verbal irony
- B.
Dramatic irony
- C.
Situational irony
- D.
No irony
- 2.What type of irony is present:A son reluctantly walked outside to meet his father in the yard at 6:00 on a Saturday morning. “Are you ready to do some yard work?” his father asked. “Yeah, I can’t wait,” the boy replied.
- A.
Verbal irony
- B.
Dramatic irony
- C.
Situational irony
- D.
No irony
- 3.What type of irony is present:Janice begins to receive threatening notes in the mail and on her car. Then, a car tries to run her over in a dark parking lot. She can’t see who the driver is. She goes to her best friend Doug for help. However, her attacker keeps trying to kill her. Finally, Doug has her come stay with him at his cabin so she will be safe. Then, he reveals that HE is the attacker!!
- A.
Verbal irony
- B.
Dramatic irony
- C.
Situational irony
- D.
No irony
- 4.What type of irony is present: Cinderella, a penniless house slave to her step-mother and two step-sisters, goes to a ball held for the prince. The prince believes that Cinderella is a royal lady since she is at the ball and is so beautiful. He falls in love with her not knowing that she is a maid in her step-mother’s house.
- A.
Verbal irony
- B.
Dramatic irony
- C.
Situational irony
- D.
No irony
- 5.What type of irony is present: When this movie opens, we see a town and the setting appears to be early-Colonial America (i.e. the Puritans). The town is attacked regularly by creepy rat-like monsters in red cloaks. One of the members of the town falls very ill, and they need to send someone to another town for medical supplies. They choose to send a blind girl in the town, who leaves on her journey, having to run from the monsters. When she reaches the main road, a truck picks her up and we realize that the setting is not early-American but present day!
- A.
Verbal irony
- B.
Dramatic irony
- C.
Situational irony
- D.
No irony
- 6.What type of irony is present:Ashley is six feet tall. She will only date guys who are 6’3 and above. One night, she saw a guy who was less than 5 feet tall. She said, “Yeah, he definitely meets my height requirement.”
- A.
Verbal irony
- B.
Dramatic irony
- C.
Situational irony
- D.
No irony
What do you know about the types of irony? An Irony is simply a rhetorical device, a literary technique, or an event in which what appears in the front, to be the case, differs entirely from what is the case. Take this quiz...
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Sample QuestionSCALE LEVEL 2:What type of irony is present: Lois Lane, a reporter at the Daily Planet, is in love with the superhero Superman. She is obsessed with him, and always asks her co-worker, Clark Kent for information about him. She thinks that Clark and Superman are friends. However, Clark is actually Superman in disguise and is very much in love with Lois, but she won’t give Clark the time of day.
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