First, check out this Google Presentation and take notes on the definitions:





Then, look at these examples. What makes them ironic?



Complete this irony assignment using Google Docs, and upload in the "Elements of Fiction" block.




Here are some other irony resources if you'd like more practice:


1. Listen to Alanis Morisette's song "Ironic."



2. Then, watch this. It is a bit inappropriate, but very effective. A rebuttal, if you will:



3. Now, here's an essay that strives to make the Alanis Morisette song actually ironic.

4. Finally, you write your own "correction" of "Ironic."
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