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Identifying Three Types Of Irony. Q Uestions From: Http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=types-irony_1 By Joellewright On March 16, 2010. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

You are walking down the street and you find a penny but you do not pick it up, when you try to take the bus you are missing a penny and you have to walk.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

You work at a fire extinguisher factory, when you get home your house is on fire and you don't have one.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, 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.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

A patient is at the dentist and just as the dentist is about to give him a shot in the mouth to numb him, the patient says, Wow, this is going to be fun!
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

In the movie The Truman Show, the viewer is aware that Truman is on a television show, but Truman himself only gradually learns this.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

The roads become icy and snowy, so school is closed.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

A woman is nervous about attending a wedding due to being single, She however goes and there meets her future husband.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

Someone referring to someone's son-in-law as their 'favorite', when in fact that is far from the truth.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

The local fire station burns down.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.
a) situational irony
b) dramatic irony
c) verbal irony
d) no irony

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