This PPT consists topic of irony. It will help you to understand more clearly what is Irony, how it's work in our day to day life too not in books only. I am pooja Bhuva, from English Department, MKBU, Bhavnagar. If you have any doubt, suggestions and feedback please let me know. Enjoy learning, keep loving Litrature and have a critical thinking.

1. MKBU, English
Department,
IRONY

2. •What is Irony?
▪Irony simply means the expression of one’s
meaning by using language that normally signifies
the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic
effect.
▪If a person say or do something that we are not
expecting it is called irony in a sense.
▪According to John Hurt,
“Life is full of ironies And
paradoxes.”

3. ▪Irony is a Term, it has origin form Greek eirōneia,
meaning to Dissimulation orTo Feign Ignorance.
▪This term is used to refer to “a rhetorical figure and
the manner discourse in which, for the most part,
the meaning was contrary to the words.
▪In simple words, Irony means opposite of what is
actually meant.
▪ For example, Spilling one’s morning tea/coffee one
might say, “Oh, great! The day couldn’t have started any
better.”

4. Forms of Irony:-
▪By the late 17th and say 18th century, Irony, as a
mode of thinking, feeling and expression, as can be
seen in the work of Dryden, Swift, Voltaire, Pope,
Fielding and Johnson.
▪Irony takes several forms such as Socratic Irony,
Situational Irony, Dramatic Irony, Verbal Irony,
Tragic Irony, etc.

5. Verbal Irony:-
▪Verbal Irony is “SayingWhat one does not Mean.”
▪Verbal Irony deals with sentences or words which
we even don’t agree with What we are saying or we
mean opposite of it.
▪While it’s sound similar to sarcasm, it’s not exactly
the same.

6. Examples of Verbal Irony:-
• Looking at her son’s messy
room, mom says, Wow! You
award for cleanliness.
• When we are busy in so many
works and someone asks, let’s
go somewhere outside and we
answers, Of course let’s go I am
totally free let’s go.

7. Examples Of Verbal Irony:-

8. Situational Irony:-
▪Situational irony or irony of situation Occurs when
the exact opposite of what a person expected to
happen or assumed would happen takes place.
▪In simple words situational irony means the event
happened in our life that we doesn’t expected or
we think of it that this particular thing happened to
me or happen in my life.

9. Examples of Situational Irony:-
▪In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847) Jane Accepts
the marriage proposal and hopes to become the
wife of Edward Rochester. However, on the day of
the wedding, it is revealed that Rochester is
already married to a woman named Bertha, who
because of her madness, in kept hidden and
confined inThornfield Hall, Rochester’s mansion.

10. Examples of Situational Irony:-
▪Darcy falling in love with Elizabeth is an example of
situational irony because, at the beginning of the
novel (in Chapter 3), he makes it clear that he is not
interested in her. (Pride and Prejudice by Austen)
▪The fact that Elizabeth misjudges Darcy and
considering him overly prideful and cruel when he
is in fact caring and considerate is also an example
of situational irony.(Pride and Prejudice)

11. Examples of Situational Irony:-

12. Dramatic Irony or Tragic Irony:-
▪A situation in a play or narrative in which the
audience or reader shares with the author
knowledge of present or future circumstances of
which a character is ignorant, this situation called
Dramatic orTragic irony.
▪In simple word A situation as a viewer or reader we
can easily understand but the person with whom
everything happened don’t aware of that.

13. Examples of Dramatic or Tragic
Irony:-
▪Shakespeare’s Othello presence of fine example of
dramatic irony.
▪The audience knows from lago’s soliloquies that he
is planning to bring about the downfall of Othello
But Othello believes that Lago always offers him
genuine advise.

14. Examples of Dramatic or Tragic
Irony:-
▪In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo thinks
that his beloved Juliet is dead, when in actuallity
she is unconscious due to the sleeping poison.
▪If we are watching a movie about the Titanic and a
character leaning on the balcony right before the
ship hits the iceberg says, “It’s so beautiful I could
just die,” that’s an example of dramatic irony.

15. Examples of Dramatic or Tragic
Irony:-

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