Irony

ex: in a scary movie we would see a killer hiding, however the character is unaware of the killer **verbal irony-** a figure in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. ex: as funny as death **situational irony-** an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected and what actually does happen. ex: you save up to buy something nice for yourself, but at your next birthday someone gets it for you. IRONIC EXAMPLES  code 1. The average cost of rehabilitating one seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. One minute later, the cheering suddenly stopped and the crowd watched while both seals were eaten by a killer whale.
 * d****ramatic irony-** a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

2. A psychology student rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.

3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. By the time he had come down, eight hours short of the 400 day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. A shame as he had merely been listening to his Walkman.

5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. You've guessed it, he opened it and said a fond farewell to his face.

code  JFK was once asked how, if given the choice, he would prefer to die. "You never know what's hit you," he replied. "A gunshot is the perfect way." get it because there're supposed to be exercising and there is an escalator hahaha