Blog #12, Leonardo Gonzalez, Blogger 7-11

Aim: How can we analyze the structure of irony in Lord of the Flies and it’s significance to the work as a whole

Do Now: Pop quiz on chapters 9 - 10

After the quiz we reviewed the definition of irony and the types of irony that can be found in literature.

Irony is the general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention

Verbal Irony is when the writer says one thing and means another. “The best substitute for expenence is being sixteen

Dramatic Irony is when The reader or the audience sees a character’s mistakes or misunderstandings, but the character himself/herself does not

Irony of Situation is when an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the readers or the audience

Cosmic Irony is when fate is in complete control of the situation when a character tries to improve his/her life, fate twists it

Then we listened to a song called ironic

After hearing the song we talked with our groups and picked out different pieces of irony that was shown in the song. We also found coincidenceses that were also in the song

An example of irony in the song is:

“ Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly

He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight

And as the plane crashed down he thought

"Well isn't this nice..." ”

An example of a coincidence in the song is

“ An old man turned ninety-eight

He won the lottery and died the next day ”