Situational Irony In My Writing

Writers are constantly looking for new ways to convey their messages. Even if a piece isn’t serious, creative delivery is vital to captivating a modern audience. Humor isn’t just about becoming the next Tina Fey or Stephen Colbert. Adding comedic elements to writing can set an argument apart--in both negative and positive ways. Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it definitely can help convey an argument. While the goal may be to improve an argument or message, it can sometimes be a disadvantage as well, especially when discussing education.

In this essay I will be telling you how Irony and suspense is to me and how I feel about it

There are three different forms of irony used in the textbook: Dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony. Dramatic Irony is used a lot in plays. It is when the reader knows something that the character doesn’t. Situational irony is when something happens that isn’t the expected outcome, typically with sharp contrasts and contradictions. Verbal irony is synonymous with sarcasm.

Edmond Rostand uses situational irony to create suspense in the play Cyrano De Bergerac in the form of the relationship between Christian and Cyrano. After an encounter with Cyrano, the cadets and the reader believe that we will “…find him ground to mince-meat” (Rostand 53). Christian has been insulting Cyrano’s nose and everyone thinks that Christian will be killed, but Cyrano rather becomes friends with Christian and helps him. While reading the letter written to Roxane by Cyrano, Christian notices a spot and relies that “It is a tear” (90). At this moment Christian figures out that Cyrano loves Christian just like he does, we think he will be mad, but rather wants him to tell Roxane. Christian asks Cyrano to “Let her choose. Go; tell her

WetWind Alternatives Corp (WWA) produces electricity through alternative methods such as wave and wind turbines and owns two subsidiaries, Kahuku Wind Inc. and North Shore Wave Electric Inc. (NS Wave), on the north shore of Oahu, HI to utilize the resources of this geographic location in their business venture. Deloitte’s Case 13-06 – “Natural Irony: Accounting Considerations When There Is a Natural Disaster”, discusses a hypothetical scenario where a volcanic eruption causes massive damage to the subsidiaries’ operational assets and poses the question of how to properly record these occurrences in financial statements. The main issue is that Kahuku Wind and NW Wave’s fiscal year end is October 31st so that WWA can have complete

Situational irony creates emotions and different feeling from the readers. The authors O. Henry and Guy de Maupassant both use situational irony to make their short stories more interesting. For example, in the story “The Ransom of Redchief” O. Henry uses situational irony to add humor and excitement to his story. He also uses irony to surprise readers and catch them off guard. Guy de Maupassant used irony to make readers feel sympathetic for the main character Mathilde in “The Necklace”. Many authors such as these two use situational irony to affect readers emotions and surprise them.

As Bill Nye once said: “Humor is everything in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.” Irony affects everybody. It affects how we think, do, and even act. Situational irony is a distort on a story; the opposite of what was expected for the reader, typically occurs in short stories. For instance, Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony to capture his readers into feeling sympathy for his main character in “The Necklace”. Also in “The Ransom of Red Chief” O.Henry uses situational irony to formulate an emotion in his readers, in this story O.Henry formulates the feeling of humor. By reading these two stories it is clear that authors utilize situational irony to deploy emotions in there

“The Cask of Amontillado” is a unique story in many ways. There are many literary elements present throughout this story. One of these literary elements is irony. Irony can influence the portrayal of a character in a story. Irony can also add intrigue and excitement to the plot of the story. In Edgar Allen Poe’s story, he uses the literary element of irony to add to the plot and influence how the characters are portrayed throughout his story.

In Chapter Ten, the Director uses Bernard as an example of an individual who displayed unusual behavior. The director says to the crowd in the Bloomsbury Centre, “...this man who stands before before you here...has grossly betrayed the trust imposed in him. By his heretical views on sport and soma, by by the scandelous unorthodoxy of his sexlife...he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter...of all Order and Stability” (Huxley, 149). The Director is saying that unorthodox behavior destroys society ironically, the director is the one who displays this behavior. Since Huxley uses dramatic irony, the Director does not know that Linda and John would appear and reveal what Bernard would be punished for. When Linda and John come through the door, it reveals the Director's previous monogamous relationship and that he is a father and Linda a mother. The words mother, father, and son bring shame and embarrassment to the director, because everyone laughs hysterically. Another form of irony is that the words mother and father are considered indecent and pornographic in this society, they are taken as a delight in modern society.

Exhausted and fatigued I forced my white spikes into the grassy course. The arid, dry air made it feel like I was running through a desert. With the blazing, scorching sun beating down on me which made things much worst. I soon develop cotton mouth and breathing becomes a much harder task. Gasping for every once of air, I finally reach the wooded part of the course. Relived that I was almost at the finish, but more relived because of the the cool shade. For a brief second, I savored the refreshing shadows of the trees. Upon exiting the wooded area I experienced a sharp pain in my upper abdomen. The pain was so bad that the very act of moving was painful. Grasping my side I soon started to gag. I was thinking to myself that this has to be the worst time for this to happen. Step by step, I found myself slowing down more and more, like a car slowly running out of gas.

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Growing up with an older brother was inevitable to be following his footsteps. When he grew up amongst his friends to find women and cars endearing, I too became one similar to him and lost my innocence. As the moral of Araby concludes that somethings are not always what they hoped to be, the same moral applies for the introduction of a lost innocence. A lost innocence, in my perspective, is the awakening of reality. That being said, in the story Araby, the narrator develops an affection for a religious girl that becomes an obsession. The religious girl discusses with the narrator that she cannot attend an event due to religious reasons. The narrator then grows an idea that he must obtain a valuable object at the event for the girl, hoping

Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice, used her characters to incorporate multiple instances of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony into her novel in order to satirize English social life during the Regency Period. Austen’s novel primarily follows Elizabeth Bennet - an upper class and reasonable heroine, and her family. Throughout the book, Elizabeth and her family are used by Jane Austen to create opportunities for irony. Despite Pride and Prejudice containing as much irony as coal in Newcastle, each of Austen’s uses of irony also target a specific aspect of one of her characters or conflicts from the novel.

The British comedy sketch, My Blackberry is not working, is an episode part of the One Ronnie Show, BBC. This sketch, first released in 2010, played by well-known comedians, Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield. The sketch is set at a local fruit store, where a customer complains about a blackberry that he had bought from the store the week before. The blackberry is now broken and the customer wants the store owner to fix the problem. Although set in a familiar location the fruit store, through the use of comic premise, dramatic irony and characterisation, a hilarious comedic sketch is created.

Irony can be used in poetry to make a point, or to evoke a particular emotion or reaction. Sometimes it can be hard to identify, but can ultimately change the way you interpret a poem. Irony, in all its forms, has become an important literacy technique. You can see irony in one, two or all three forms throughout one single