Use Of Situational Irony In Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

There are many mind-boggling books made throughout history, but a book written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, melted the hearts of many. . In this book, there is so much conflict between the greasers and socs culminated in violence and physical confrontations. Greasers are the people who live on the east side of Tulsa with less money than middle and higher class. Socs are the higher class that have parties while getting drunk and still being highly respected, unlike the greasers who are looked down at by almost everyone.These differences are only the beginning, and most of the hostility between the socs and greasers based on acts of revenge. The acts of revenge throughout the book, The Outsiders, reveals external conflict, internal conflict, and irony. Revenge is a huge

Authors of your favorite books like Harry Potter or the Hunger Games, will often use literary elements such as situational irony to critique society and what's wrong or what's right with it. For example, in the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, situational irony can be found critiquing society. As well as, Ray Bradbury in the short story The Veldt. The Veldt uses situational irony and foreshadowing to imply why technology cannot advance and how it will take over our lives. It also foreshadows the detriments of having a house and a relationship that revolves around technology.

“The Scieszka brothers are scattered all over the country now, but still get together once a year to play a family golf tournament.” This is part of the situational irony because they won't expect to end up in a puke chaos. Another example of this is “All of the brothers - Jim, Jon, Tom, Gregg, Brian, and Jeff - spilled out of the puke wagon and fell in the grass, gagging, yelling, and laughing until we couldn't laugh anymore.” This is also situational irony because first, you wouldn't expect them to all puke and second, for all of them to laugh afterwards which is different from what is expected. The universal truth of all of this is to enjoy all the time you have with your brothers until it all runs

To begin, in Labyrinth they used the literary device of verbal irony. In this part of the movie Jim Henson used verbal irony when Hoggle had the peach and he said “I couldn't hurt the girl” yet Hoggle gave Sarah the poisonous peach anyways. This was verbal

Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected happens. An example of situational irony in the episode is when peter brings home boxes filled with fake lottery tickets that he purchased by taking a second mortgage out on the house. After searching through enormous piles of fake tickets peter explains to the family they were all fake and it was a test. Brian, the dog, criticizes the lottery saying, “Peter this is idiotic. Don’t you know the odds of winning are like a hundred million to one. The lottery is just a tax on stupid people” (MacFarlane, Seth). Peter then brings out a final box and the first ticket Brian picks up is the winning ticket. This is situational irony because after Brian explains that chances of winning the lottery are very slim and only stupid people succumb to the lottos promises of fortune, he finds the winning ticket. The directors reason for including this segment is to hint at the lottery being a scam and having unfair

Another example of dramatic irony is when Jareth told Hoggle that if Sarah kissed Hoggle, he would go into the Bog of Eternal Stench. Sarah did not know about this, but the audience does know what is going on. Another example is when Sarah and her friends were facing away from Ludo- her doggish friend- when he fell into a hole. Sarah and her “gang:” all thought he disappeared. The audience knows what is going on, but the characters did not. Jim also uses situational irony- the irony where something happened that the audience and the characters don't expect it. One of the situations when this is used is in the beginning there are fairies, we all expected them to be nice and sweet, but instead they bit Sarah's finger. Later in the movie, Sarah found herself in a junkyard in the labyrinth, she found an exact replica of her house. Her house fell apart while she was in there. The audience and the characters did not expect that. The last example is at the very end where all the characters good or bad, were “partying” with Sarah at the end of the movie. In conclusion, When authors use these 3 kinds of irony it makes the story, labyrinth more

For example, when Mary Maloney kills Patrick, her husband, for deciding to leave her and their unborn baby, this exemplifies one case of situational irony. After getting home from work, Patrick was behaving unnaturally; instead of being ready to go out to eat that night, he sits Mary down and tells her that he wants to leave her. Mary, in shock and consequently unable to process this information, goes downstairs to find something for supper; however, when she comes back up with a leg of lamb, instead of heading to the kitchen to begin cooking, she walks up and calmly smashes the rock-hard leg into the back of Patrick’s head, killing him. The readers see another example of situational irony when Mary decides to make supper after murdering him. A seemingly meek and gentle character, one would not expect Mary to be rational or logical after the murder; contrary to expectations, she puts the lamb into the oven to dispose of the evidence and the murder weapon, and she goes out to the grocery store to build an alibi, acting as if she needs potatoes and peas to feed her (unbeknownst to anyone but Mary) dead husband. Whenever she arrives home and sees her husband dead near the window, she calls the police station, hysterical, saying that someone must have broken into their home and killed him. In this short story, the author employs situational irony to show

After the class discussion on Hitler and persecution, Scout recalls Miss Gates past behavior at the trial, “Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home一”(331). Situational Irony shows the blindness towards their hatred and prejudice of certain personnages have towards their own citizens and the consequences it has on them. Verbal irony exhibits hypocrisy and lack of awareness to their own prejudice, in the way Maycomb and its people treat and judge minorities in their own town compared to other places. Dramatic irony is then added throughout the story to gain suspense for both the reader on how, for example, Jem broke his arm. And to the characters who do not know what is going to happen. In

In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses irony as a method to stating his personal thoughts and opinions , especially about the Catholic Church, without outrightly doing so. “And Nicholas had stroked her loins a bit And kissed her , sweetly he took down his harp And played away, a merry tune and sharp. It happened later she went off to church, This worthy wife, one holiday, to search Her conscience and do the works of Christ.” Since it was socially unacceptable to disregard the workings of the Church during this time. Chaucer used characters Alison and Nicholas as medium to express his feelings.

Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens. Situational irony is shown all throughout the story. One example is at the end of the story when Tessie is about to be stoned. Jackson says, “Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. ‘Come on,’ she said. ‘Hurry up.’” It is ironic because at the beginning of the story, Mrs. Delacroix and Tessie were talking with each other as if they were close friends. Tessie arrives to the lottery late: “‘Clean forgot what day it was,’ she said to Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her, and they both laughed softly.” The reader would think that Mrs. Delacroix and Mrs. Hutchinson get along because they are talking and laughing with each other, like friends do. It is unexpected that Mrs. Delacroix would select the largest stone, because she seemed to get along with Tessie just a short while earlier. This use of irony helps develop the characterization of Mrs. Delacroix. At first she seems like a nice friend to Tessie, but she quickly turns and rushes to stone

Most authors have a goal of creating an effect of surprise for the reader through their stories. Situational irony is a device used to create some sort of emotion in a story, specifically a short story. Throughout the two short stories “The Necklace”, written by Guy de Maupassant, and “The Ransom of Red Chief”, by O. Henry, situational irony is used for that purpose. In “The Necklace”, the author uses this device to create a feeling of desire, however in the story “The Ransom of Red Chief”, the author uses situational irony to create a humorous effect.

In the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin irony is a key element the author uses. One can define irony as a situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant. (A4) Using irony keeps the reader intrigued and creates more interest in reading the story. The author uses several types of irony to write the story.

For example, when an evil scientist makes a laser to shoot down the moon, but instead, it backfires and blows up his lab. Situations like that are a very common and reoccurring principle in many stories and works of literature. Using irony in children’s books are probably most commonly used in the method of teaching a

Time flew by so quickly, as it always had on shower night. His daily routine included push-ups and back arms, from 5:30 p.m. - his time for a shower. The routine was not only for exercising his body, but also his mind. Over the last year, Greg had come to realize that he could not let the time he had to do—do him. He reversed the sentence. He had to do the

Greg’s moms remained trying to take Greg to the pool of the town. Greg dint wanted to go again to that pool because you needed to go throw the lockers where are grown men’s soaping right out in the open. That was one of the most