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Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect

Merriam-Webster definition: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning

1. Sources we’ve seen Irony

Lifeboat Ethics

The One Who Walk Away from Omelas

1. How have those authors explored it?

Omelas the author portrayed that the child in the cellar is suffering and taking all the misery for everyone to be happy and what we, the reader think, is that if we just take the child out of the cellar, everyone and the child can be happy, but the exact opposite happens, Omelas will crumble and be destroyed.

In the Lifeboat Ethics Hardin talks about the World Food Bank and how it can help poorer countries get the food they need and we the reader think maybe this could be a solution, but then in the long run of the bank, it will collapse and not work anymore because the population went up and the demand for food did as well.

1. Irony in my Life.

You would think that when I study for a test that I would do good on it, but in reality I did poorly and it made me think that I wasted my time studying for it and then the night before.

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1. Omelas

2. This story provides irony in some ways. The irony in this story is that they are supposed to be a perfect Utopia with beautiful intelligent people yet they keep an apparently ugly and disoriented child locked in a cellar somewhere in Omelas to keep them this way.

3. I find it ironic that i am born in Illinois yet my favorite football team is the state's biggest rival.

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Omelas and The Lottery both used irony.

In Omelas, a child suffered in a basement in order to have the rest of the city prosper and be happy. In The Lottery, someone was stoned for the greater good of the town and the town was to have good crops that year if the stoning occurred.

An example of irony would be when someone claims they would never do something but then later does that exact something.

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Irony,  Expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

I believe the lottery expresses this term well because, when every contestant was drawing tickets from the black box one gentleman was accused of not having enough time to select a ticket when everyone got the same amount of time. The lady fought for him saying he had not gotten enough time when every individual attended had the same adequate amount of time to choose a ticket,

Authors use irony to emphasize a point in the story. There are many ways for authors to connect to their readers through irony and the 3 literary devices are Dramatical, Structural, and Verbal Irony.

Irony takes place all around HHS. The best on that comes to my mind is when students are suppose to wear ID at all time and when a student doesn't there is always someone from staff that scolds kids to put them on when they themselves are not showing any physical ID. There are many more examples I can name but by far this is the biggest irony I see on a day to day basis.

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1. Texts that explore this concept is The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, and The Lottery

2. They explore the concept of irony when they pull a piece of paper and it ends up having a big black dot on it which means that someone is going to die but the way the author words it till that point is where the irony comes in

3. I see irony in my community when the news says one thing will happen with the weather but it all changes last minute and they don’t have enough time to notify us so then we stop watching that news channel

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1) Both Omelas and lottery used Irony
2) The people of Omelas hug their children and never feel guilt even though they know their extravagance and happiness comes from the torment and misery of a child.
3) My parents tell me about the importance of education and its many benefits. Neither has graduated College and one barely graduated high school.

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Most of the texts we read show irony

The lotter had irony in it when Tessie had a re-draw and she was the one who had to be killed. The authors show this by having Tessie get upset.

I see irony in my life because I have a friend who is vegan but she recently told me she had cheese pizza because she was hungry.

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1. The ones who walk away from omelas: Everything is perfect, yet in a closet resides the complete opposite of what omelas strives to be. The lottery: Everyone is happy, yet at the end there is a very horrible outcome for an individual

2. The Education systems strives to teach kids, yet is currently more focused on standardised testing- and filling bubbles.

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1. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

2. It is used in Lifeboat Ethics, Omelas, The Lottery, and Catcher in the Rye.

3. These authors explore the word and use of irony by using the characters as examples. They make the characters say or do something and then make the characters do or say the actual opposite later in the book which contradicts what they said making it about irony. I see irony all over HHS and the community. People use it while talking to others and in conversation, or people do things that are ironic to something that they stated earlier that happened to be a coincidence.

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Sources that use Irony would be “ Lifeboat Ethics: The case against helping the poor”, also “ The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas”

Authors explore this concept  as a literary device to make readers think about something or to emphasize a point in the story. For irony to be used correctly, the reader must be able to clearly understand the difference between what is being said and what is expected.

Irony is used in our everyday life. If you plan on going to the store and you end up just staying at home that is Irony.

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1. In Omelas the author uses irony.

2. When he talks about the child living such poor conditions and treated horribly while rest of the city was beautiful and full of life.

3. I see irony in the school when people bully others just to make themselves feel better. Like how the citizens of Omelas treated the child badly to make the city and themselves happy.

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1. The lottery shows a great amount of irony when supporting a tradition, then claiming it is unfair when someone they love is picked to die.

2. They explore the concept of irony by making a special tradition and then fighting it when someone is going to die.

3. I see irony at HHS because we claim to have equal representation among all sports and activities yet, some activities get no recognition.

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5&6) The Lottery really shows you this meaning because Tessie was shouting that it wasn't fair and that they needed to draw again, well, ironically she was the one to actually get picked and get stoned.

7) I see irony in my life when sometimes I will  be thinking about a show and then that show plays that same episode a few hours later.

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1. All the texts that we read explore the literary concept of irony.

2. For example, in “The Lottery” the person who was late to the ceremony is the one who died. In “Lifeboat Ethics”, if you saved everyone to go on the lifeboat, everyone would die.

3. Irony is all over. Whenever you mean to do something and something else happens, that is irony.

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1. Lifeboat Ethics explores the concept of irony.

2. Lifeboat Ethics explores this concept by explaining that by donating or helping those who need it, you are actually doing more bad in the long run. This is completely the opposite of what is expected to happen when you donate to someone who needs it.

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1) In Omelas I find it ironic that the towns happiness comes form having one kid suffer.

2) The authors use irony with the trade off of one thing for the opposite ideas, like when the happiness of Omelas is because of the sadness of one neglected child.

3) I see irony on the news, at school, at my home, and basically everywhere i go. Some of the irony can range from Hippocratic, to people calling others racist and then proceed to call out that single race for their wrong doings, when that calling out, it a racist notion in itself.

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Omelas, the Lottery

In Omelas, the fact that happiness of the town depends on sadness and suffering. Happy needs sad, sad needs happy, both of which are total opposites.

In the Lottery, your family can kill you. The people who you love and trust and should be there for could turn on you in a second for their own benefit.

In HHS, people say their boyfriend/girlfriend is the love of their lives and that they’ll eventually marry and such. More often than not, less than a week later, that couple has broken up. Love becomes hate in a few days time.

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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and The Lottery both used irony.

In both writings, irony was used when one person suffered or died for the well being and prosperity of all the rest.

It’s ironic that I have a job to pay for my car and I have my car to get myself to my job.