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Irony
You will want to listen to the famous song, "Ironic," by Alani Morissette, after viewing this short PowerPoint. The three slides in this slideshow include a definition of irony, verbal irony, and dramatic irony. Tip: Ask your class to...
Curated OER
Satire: A Matter of Tone
Satire, anyone? After a review of terms associated with satire, viewers are directed to craft a 500-600 word piece of satire about a familiar hypocrisy.
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Seymour Community School District: 10 Rhetorical Devices [Pdf]
A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Verbal Irony?
In the final of a three part series on irony, Christopher Warner gets into the irony you may use most often and most casually: verbal irony. [3:29]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Situational Irony: The Opposite of What You Think
Leaps and bounds separate that which is ironic and that which many people simply say is ironic. Christopher Warner wants to set the record straight: Something is ironic if and only if it is the exact opposite of what you would expect....