This document defines different types of irony and provides an example of situational irony from the novel Animal Farm. It explains that situational irony occurs when the outcome is different than expected. In Animal Farm, the animals take over the farm hoping to be treated humanely, but end up acting like the humans and treating each other in the same oppressive way.

1. IRONY IN ANIMAL FARM

2. DEFINITIONS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF IRONY
• Verbal Irony - Used to strengthen a statement by forcing
the reader to or listener to seek its true meaning .
Ex. Soft like a brick.
• Dramatic Irony - Occurs in drama or fiction when a
character or the audience or reader knows something
that the characters don’t know. Ex. Two people are
engaged to be married but the audience knows that man
is planning to run off with another woman.
• Situational Irony- A situation where the outcome is
different than what was expected. Ex. The local fire
department burnt down.

3. HOW SITUATIONAL IRONY IS USED ANIMAL
FARM
• An example of situational irony in Animal Farm
is that the animals took over the farm so they
would be treated in a humane way. But in the
end, they end up they act exact same as the
humans acted at the beginning. The pigs go
from animals who hate people, to animals who
act like people and treat there fellow
“comrades” the way Manor Jones treated them
at the beginning of the story.

4. CITATIONS (MLA)
• Epstein, William H. “Irony.” World Book. Ed.
Paul A. Kobosa. Vol. 10. Chicago: Scott Fetzer,
2010. Print.
• “Animal Farm.” Novels for Students. Ed. Diane
Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale,
1998. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 15
Aug. 2014.
• Ball, David.. Animal Farm. Barron’s, 2004.
eLibrary. Web. !5 Aug. 2014.