Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Irony and Ambiguity

At first, I thought irony was something that you think is going to happen doesn't really happen, but I learned that this was wrong. Actually, irony is the difference between what the reader expects or what seems suitable and the reality of what happens. There are three types of irony: verbal, situational, and dramatic.
I also learned about ambiguity. I used to think ambiguity was a cliffhanger that makes you think about what happenes at the end, but I learned that ambiguity is apart of a text with multiple meaning in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
On my irony and ambiguity pretest, I was below grade-level. On my posttest, I hope that I will be above grade-level.