Irony!!!
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Writing 2
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This weeks essay is to get students to compare themselves to a fictional or real "famous person." I gave them some examples which I attributed to other students. I find if I tell them other students came up with the ideas, they get really competitive and try to think outside the box. Because they are trying to be original, they tend to come up with more descriptive, detailed essays because they enjoy what they are writing.
Here are the the examples:
"One of my students compared himself to Spiderman. He put on a uniform and helped others on the internet. He used the internet as his web and traveled around trying to help students with homework and vanquishing people who put up inappropriate comments on news forums."
"Another one of my students compared himself to Smegal and her cellphone was her precious. She worshipped it and was always rubbing it and talking to it. One day her teacher took the phone away and she was devastated. She ended up helping the teacher everyday trying to get on his good side by cleaning the class, doing her homework, and other tasks. Outwardly she praised his teacher, but inwardly she was cursing the teacher and wished for his death."
By the by, one of my students wanted to compare himself to Stalin. That should be interesting.
Here are the the examples:
"One of my students compared himself to Spiderman. He put on a uniform and helped others on the internet. He used the internet as his web and traveled around trying to help students with homework and vanquishing people who put up inappropriate comments on news forums."
"Another one of my students compared himself to Smegal and her cellphone was her precious. She worshipped it and was always rubbing it and talking to it. One day her teacher took the phone away and she was devastated. She ended up helping the teacher everyday trying to get on his good side by cleaning the class, doing her homework, and other tasks. Outwardly she praised his teacher, but inwardly she was cursing the teacher and wished for his death."
By the by, one of my students wanted to compare himself to Stalin. That should be interesting.
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Irony!!!
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I've been trying to teach my students irony and its a really tough concept for most of my students. They kinda get situational irony and they understand irony when I explain it to them, but when I ask them to come up with examples- they are always at a loss. I'm going to compile some research so I can come up with a better way to explain it to them.
IRONY
1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.
1. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated” (Richard Kain).
2. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
irony, figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user of irony assumes that his reader or listener understands the concealed meaning of his statement. Perhaps the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she means. Thus, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, when Mark Antony refers in his funeral oration to Brutus and his fellow assassins as “honorable men” he is really saying that they are totally dishonorable and not to be trusted. Dramatic irony occurs in a play when the audience knows facts of which the characters in the play are ignorant. The most sustained example of dramatic irony is undoubtedly Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus searches to find the murderer of the former king of Thebes, only to discover that it is himself, a fact the audience has known all along.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. - Friedrich Schlegel
# A situation immortalized in O. Henry's story The Gift of the Magi, in which a young couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts. The man finally pawns his heirloom pocket watch to buy his wife a set of combs for her long, prized, beautiful hair. She, meantime, cuts her hair to sell to a wigmaker for money to buy her husband a watch-chain.
# A man goes over a giant waterfall in a barrel and survives, only to take a cleanup shower where he slips on the soap and dies from trauma and drowning. Such a contrast occurred in 2006 when Australian naturalist Steve Irwin, famous for surviving many close encounters with Earth's deadliest animals, died in a freak accident with a sting-ray, an animal which almost never causes fatalities.
# An anti-capitalist website sells anti-capitalism t-shirts for a profit.
The use of words to mean something very different from what they appear on the surface to mean. Jonathan Swift uses irony in “A Modest Proposal” when he suggests the eating of babies as a solution to overpopulation and starvation in Ireland.
IRONY
1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.
1. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated” (Richard Kain).
2. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
irony, figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user of irony assumes that his reader or listener understands the concealed meaning of his statement. Perhaps the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she means. Thus, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, when Mark Antony refers in his funeral oration to Brutus and his fellow assassins as “honorable men” he is really saying that they are totally dishonorable and not to be trusted. Dramatic irony occurs in a play when the audience knows facts of which the characters in the play are ignorant. The most sustained example of dramatic irony is undoubtedly Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus searches to find the murderer of the former king of Thebes, only to discover that it is himself, a fact the audience has known all along.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. - Friedrich Schlegel
# A situation immortalized in O. Henry's story The Gift of the Magi, in which a young couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts. The man finally pawns his heirloom pocket watch to buy his wife a set of combs for her long, prized, beautiful hair. She, meantime, cuts her hair to sell to a wigmaker for money to buy her husband a watch-chain.
# A man goes over a giant waterfall in a barrel and survives, only to take a cleanup shower where he slips on the soap and dies from trauma and drowning. Such a contrast occurred in 2006 when Australian naturalist Steve Irwin, famous for surviving many close encounters with Earth's deadliest animals, died in a freak accident with a sting-ray, an animal which almost never causes fatalities.
# An anti-capitalist website sells anti-capitalism t-shirts for a profit.
The use of words to mean something very different from what they appear on the surface to mean. Jonathan Swift uses irony in “A Modest Proposal” when he suggests the eating of babies as a solution to overpopulation and starvation in Ireland.
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