Irony

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Irony

Irony is a difference between what a person says and means Three kinds of irony:

For example there are times that I'm playing basketball and I throw a pass and instead I make it in the basket.

The irony in the poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson is that everyone wanted to live like him "To make us wish that we were in his place". Cory was a gentleman and always dressing well, he was also wealthy but at the same time very graceful. He was the envy of the town but what people didn't know was that Richard had troubles inside "Richard Cory, one calm summer night Went home and put a bullet through his head". This shows that people should not want to be like someone they don't really know like Cory who obviously didn't fill in his soles as well as he wore his crown because his soul was troubled.

In "Lamb to the Slaughter" BY ROALD DAHL the wife seems very in love and dedicated to pleasing every need of her husband. She waited for him to get home so she can cater to him in every way "She took his coat and hung it in the closet, Then she walked over and made the drinks." As Mary was trying to be the best she can be the husband was sitting on the couch cold as a rock, she felt like there was something wrong but she ignored it and kept trying to make the night splendid for her love. The husband did have a secret, he sat her down and confessed by the time he finished she was devastated. She got up and still insisted on cooking dinner "I'll get the supper, she managed to whisper, and this time he didn't stop her". She returned with a leg of lamb, she informed him that they were gonna have lamb and he yelled "God's sake, he said, hearing her, but not turning round. Don't make supper for me. I'm going out", Mary Maloney was so furious that she walked up to him and struck him with on the head with the same leg of lamb that she was going prepare for him.

The irony in "The House That Slaves Built" is that after so many years of African Americans being criticized for being invited into the White House by former leaders now we have a black president and his family living in the house. For centuries African Americans have been treated with no rights until 1954 when segregation ended, but still they were not treated equally amongst other non-colored citizens. Barrack Obama has made a giant leap when it comes in to racial issues, he also has showed that we as a country have evolved.

The irony in this cartoon picture is that Chicken Little thought the sky was falling. One day he went to get something to eat when out of no where the "SKY" from the sign of the place where he was eating fell on him. So poor chicken little was right the sky was falling.

In conclusion irony is used by writers to give a story a very dramatic twist. In the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl the wife is trying to splurge her husband and demonstrate her love towards him. The husband reveals something to the wife which devastates her and she grabs the lamb leg that she was going make for dinner and strikes him on the head and kills him. In "Richard Cory" the author makes the main character the envy of the town. Everyone wants to be in his shoes not knowing that deep inside Richard himself can't fill them in. One calm day Richard is doing the regular when he put a bullet through his head. Chicken Little was always claiming that the sky was falling when one day he went to get something to eat and the word sky actually fell on him.