(FINISHED) 2.3 The Rivals: Context

Question 1

Types of Irony

What can be defined as verbal irony?

Answer 1

This is the contrast between what is said and what is meant - sarcasm

Question 2

Types of Irony

What can be defined as dramatic irony?

Answer 2

This is the contrast between what the characters think to be true and what the audience knows to be true

Question 3

Types of Irony

What can situational irony be defined as?

Answer 3

The most common in literature: the contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen. It emerges from the events and circumstances of the story, and is more subtle than dramatic or verbal ironies.

Question 4

Types of Irony

What is the definition of socratic irony?

Answer 4

A stance assumed by a teacher who pretends to be ignorant in order to make his or her student think

Question 5

Types of Irony

What is the definiton of structural irony?

Answer 5

Pervasive irony created by a structural feature such as a naive protagonist whose viewpoint is consistently wrong (Acres), shared by neither the author nor reader

Question 6

Types of Irony

What is cosmic irony?

Answer 6

Cosmic irony is situational irony tied into the principle of fate or the manipulation of deity.

Question 7

Types of Irony

What can romantic irony be defined as?

Answer 7

Romantic irony - when an author creates a notion of reality but then destroys the illusion by revealing that the plot is being improvised

Question 8

Character Forms

What is Anglo-Irish wit?

Answer 8

Urbane, sentimental and tinged in different degrees of subversive attitudes towards English society. Commonly extravagent wit and a verbal felicity. Often characterised by astronomical rises and tragic falls.

Question 9

Character Forms