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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Drama Terms Handout [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-page PDF is a list of 15 drama terms with definitions; the list includes: dramatic conventions, concealment, soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony, tragedy, tragic flaw, harartia, and others.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Realism: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the vocabulary terms to describe the writing for the period of American Realism and is followed by an interactice crossword puzzle using the vocabulary.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Dramatic Irony (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on dramatic irony including what it is, it's purpose, examples in various genre, and a practice exercise. RL.11-12.6 Irony/Satire/etc
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Irony (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learning to read and appreciate irony is the ultimate test of your skill at reading between the lines and can take considerable practice. This lesson will help you acquire...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In the first few sections, you are going to learn about monologues and soliloquies before you get to that last possibility, dramatic irony. You already know how dialogue works, but you will learn to recognize these additional dramatic...
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Irony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Irony" including the definition, the three types, and visual examples.
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Other

Spelling police.com: Irony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Informational site that provides the definition for and examples of irony.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Victoria's English department gives a comprehensive definition of "drama" in writing.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Irony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides an excellent description of the literary term "irony." Content includes a focus on dramatic irony, structural irony, and verbal irony.
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PPT
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Irony Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this learning module, students will learn more about the three types of irony: verbal, situational, and dramatic. A PowerPoint lesson is provided to assist the understanding of irony. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Irony Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about the three types of irony: verbal, situational, and dramatic. Worksheets, activities, and a PowerPoint lesson are provided to assist with the understanding of irony. This module is...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Dramatic Irony (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on dramatic irony, when the reader or audience has more information about what is going to take place or what might develop in the story than the characters do.
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Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 1 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
As you read through the texts in this lesson, you will practice close reading strategies to help you understand a writer's tone. You'll be examining the writer's choice of diction, details, and irony to identify the writer's attitude.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Irony, Sarcasm, Paradox (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to identify and explain the purposes of irony and paradox in poetry. Both of these poetic devices are ways of saying one thing and meaning...
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Other

Fu Jen Univ.: Poetic Elements: Denotation and Connotation: Figures of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives short definitions of the terms denotation and connotation. Also gives definitions for many figures of speech. Finally, includes discussion and study questions for a few poems at the bottom of the page. L.11-12.5b Nuance
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Irony

For Students 9th - 10th
Definition of "irony" and a discussion of the three types: verbal, dramatic, and cosmic.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Deception, Drama, and Misunderstanding

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate how Shakespeare and Renaissance writers explore miscommunication, dishonesty, trickery, and the nature of theatre.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Dramatic Irony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Work through links to six images that demonstrate dramatic irony.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Dramatic Irony

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces dramatic irony.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Discovering Irony [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief PDF worksheet in which students can assess the irony in a given piece of literature. They will document the type of irony, an example from the text, and its effect on the reader as indicated by the boxes.