Literary Help Needed

3278 · Post by **3278** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 3:17 pm

For reasons surpassing my ability to explain, I need to answer the following questions by Wednesday. Could any of you help me out?

1. What short examples do you feel would best describe/ explain the concept of Verbal Irony to someone who was unfamiliar with it?

2. What short examples do you feel would best describe/ explain the concept of Dramatic Irony to someone who was unfamiliar with it?

3. What short examples do you feel would best describe/ explain the concept of Structural Irony to someone who was unfamiliar with it?

4. What short examples do you feel would best describe/ explain the concept of Cosmic Irony to someone who was unfamiliar with it?

5. Do you think the usage of Irony is common in literature, today? Can you think of any recent examples?

6. Is there any personal experience with Irony, in your life, that you could share?

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 3:28 pm

4. What short examples do you feel would best describe/ explain the concept of Cosmic Irony to someone who was unfamiliar with it?

This happened yesterday. I went with Mom to Easter Brunch. Our server's name? Jesus. (really)

paladin2019 · Post by **paladin2019** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 4:48 pm

3278 wrote: 6. Is there any personal experience with Irony, in your life, that you could share?

This might be a catch 22, but my ROTC scholoarship is in limbo right now because of an injury I received on active duty. Long story short, they put a pin in my ankle and took it out about nine weeks later at the army hospital in Wurzburg. The Chief of Orthopedics there did the removal and documented it. I served for another year and a half with no problems. And now the medical review board wants x-rays of my ankle to be sure there's no pin in it. And, oh yeah, an orthpedic surgeon has to review the x-rays because somehow only a specialist is qualified to see a three inch, stainless steel bolt through two bones.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 7:34 pm

Erp. Nevermind. The reason for these questions has become moot. Move along, move along.

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 7:40 pm

Cazmonster goes to get his BAT OF IRONY

I think 3278 could use a session with it.

Jaded · Post by **Jaded** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 2:33 am

Erp. Nevermind. The reason for these questions has become moot. Move along, move along.

*sigh*

Puts dusty rhet-comp text books back on her shelf.

*sigh*

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 5:32 am

Awwww. That's such a cute little cow pic.

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 8:50 am

And it's dancing to the beat of the music I have playing...

Jaded · Post by **Jaded** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 1:29 pm

Liniah wrote: Awwww. That's such a cute little cow pic.

Thanks! IC found it for me.

JohnnyRico · Post by **JohnnyRico** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 1:38 pm

3-2 wrote:3. What short examples do you feel would best describe/ explain the concept of Structural Irony to someone who was unfamiliar with it?

*drops the I-beam he was carrying*

Erp. Nevermind. The reason for these questions has become moot. Move along, move along

Do you know how much trouble I went through to steal this thing?

*walks out, gesturing a bit, his frustration obvious*

FlameBlade · Post by **FlameBlade** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 2:26 pm

I'm going to suggest a drama by Sophocles

Odepius the King

for this

. What short examples do you feel would best describe/ explain the concept of Dramatic Irony to someone who was unfamiliar with it?

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 2:36 pm

Cash wrote: And it's dancing to the beat of the music I have playing...

Face 2 Face "A.O.K."?