As I Lay Dying Reader Response Questions

The novel was presented with several different types and different examples of irony. The most obvious irony is in the end of the novel, Ethan intentions to commit suicide with Mattie. As for Mattie, being alive seems to be worst than death considering the change in her behavior. She was once a very caring person who later aged into a bitter older woman who ends up being miserable in a wrecked body and life.

Irony is one of the most powerful elements of figurative language. It creates a feeling of foreshadowing and sometimes humor in a rather unique way. Irony is a way of telling a story in that something happens that seems the opposite of what one would think. There are plenty of examples of the three types of irony in Night by Elie Wiesel. This essay will discuss the times verbal, situational, and dramatic irony were used in Night.

The reader/Audience member can see that the purpose of the irony has shifted from comical to more grave and intriguing, trying to draw the reader in and with light foreshadowing want to know how this great tragedy will end.

The definition of irony is a contrast between two things. One example is verbal irony. It is a contrast between what someone says and what one means, while dramatic irony is a contrast between what the characters know to be true and what the readers know to be true. Many writers use irony in their short stories to prove a dramatic point, or just to develop a story for upcoming use. These short stories by Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (140), Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” (183), and Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” (229), spin a tale of symbolic irony. Each tell a tale paradoxical twists with sublime contradiction where one is led to believe one side of an event, yet it is dragged down a twisted trail of mental sarcasms coupled with death. It is a known fact that many tales of irony require many major events to twist the order they are written in to create a viewpoint that stride away from the main topic or where the author wants the reader to end up.

This excerpt from the novel showcases irony for throughout the chapter two Milkman tries so hard to establish himself and distance himself from his father, Macon. However, even though Milkman acts the exact opposite of Macon, by giving away his money and even taking up smoking, people still treat him like he himself is Macon. This is ironic because it showcases how Milkman and Macon are more alike than as different as they seem, thus only adding to the irony that even though Milkman hates the man his father is, to everyone around him he is exactly like his father.

Irony is used in many different types of texts for the purpose of teaching us a lesson. We experience irony in our lives through our own encounters as well as through texts and media. There are three types of irony: situational, verbal, and dramatic. Each type has a way of teaching us an important lesson, although some are more common than others. In the Poem “The Old Man’s Lazy” by Peter Blue Cloud, irony is used throughout the text, allowing us to learn from the characters’ mistakes.

Without doubt, Edgar Allan Poe’s story is one of the author’s masterpiece. The story is an exhibit of artistic genius with various literary features well incorporated. Among them, irony, defined as, “A figure of speech which is a contradiction or incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs”, is the most evident. Allan Poe demonstrates the use of various types of irony throughout the play, which he uses to pass the intended message to the audience.

In this story, the two irony’s that we’re used are the situational (or cosmic) irony and the dramatic irony, because when Mrs. Mallard had gotten the news that her husband was killed in the railroad disaster of course she cried, but when she went into her room to probably take in all that was going on, that’s when her true feelings came out. She felt a sense of relief and a sense of freedom in the fact that soon she will be able to just please herself and not have to deal with someone else’s demands. But come to find out the roles reversed when she went downstairs with her sister and that front door opened, her husband walked right in with no harm done to him. Out of shock, she collapsed and died. These ironies are related because nothing

There are three types of Ironies employed in the novel: Dramatic irony, verbal irony, situational irony. Dramatic irony occurs when the reader knows the outcome of the situation while the character fails to perceive it. The most evident example of dramatic irony is seen in the first section with the reaction Moshe the Beadle receives upon coming back to Sighet. Moshe who lived through horrifying atrocity had only one desire of letting others know what horror awaited and wanted to help them escape. Yet, people’s reaction to him is that of distrust, derision and rebuff. It is particularly ironic as he sits broken not because of the Nazis but because of his own people. Another example of verbal irony is when, after the Jews are ordered to wear yellow stars, Elie's father says, "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal…"(Wiesel, 11) the statement is ironic because that is exactly how Elie's father dies. The wearing of the yellow star was one step on the path to the concentration camps and almost certain

In the “Story of an Hour” we observe many instances in which irony takes place.

<br>The first example of irony occurred in chapter two. Jack says to the group of young, impressionable boys that "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages."(Golding 32)However, in the following chapters Jack is the leader of the tribe and encourages the boys to forget civilization and act upon their primitive

Verbal irony is found within this story, especially with Bobinot and Calixta. In the beginning, we find out that Bobinot, the husband, and Bibi, the son, are stuck in a storm, away from Calixta, the wife. While away, Bobinot assures Bibi that "She'll shut the house. Maybe Sylvie is helping her this evening." Unfortunately, Calixta has no intention of shutting the house, if anything, she opens it. The whole time this is going on, Bibi is thinking and

Have you ever read a book with so much irony that it knocks your socks off? Irony takes place in all these stories we are talking about. The Merriam-Webster definition of irony is “the use of words to express something other than, and especially the opposite, of the literal meaning.” These stories will keep you wondering what’s going to happen and when you least expect it, irony will come out of no where and surprise the reader. In the short stories, “The Veldt,” “Just Lather, That’s All,” and “The Ransom of Red Chief,” Irony is active throughout the whole story.

"Irony is a device that protects him (the artist) from the pain of his experience so that he may use it objectively in his art(Susquehanna. "New Critical")." In The Glass Menagerie, it is ironic how Tom speaks badly of his father and his leaving home but in the end he leaves home just like his father, the man "in love with long distances (Williams 30)''. The fact that Amanda wants what is best for her children is ironic because she worries so much over it that she doesn't realize what is best for them.

Verbal irony is used throughout the story as well and relates to the theme of hypocrisy. Throughout the story, many things are said that might confuse you or not make sense which is verbal irony. One of the characters, Old Man Warner said, “ Next thing you know they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves”(Jackson 4). This is ironic because he is making it seem that cave men and their lifestyles are modern which in reality they are not. Another example is told by Mrs. Delacroix, “ You’re in time, though. They’re still talking away up there”. Here she is talking to Tessi Hutchinson acting like their friends and everything is fine, but at the end of the story when Tessi is the one being stoned, Mrs. Delacroix picks up the biggest rock to throw.