so it that irony??
every since that dumb alanis song i've been confused about what irony is.. but here's my story.
If u faithful reader (singular cuz there is only one of u) go into my archives and look up may 30th or so you will find a post about a conversation i had with my beau in which he tells me he loves me but doesn't have any plans to marry me(read the post). i was sad for a while, but quickly got over it knowing my beau can be over dramatic at times...
that weekend... also happens to be the weekend i got with child.. knocked up is that better? is that irony? cuz now we are in when we get married mode... the very night he was all i can't make forever plans right now we made a forever plan. so is that irony?
well i've been worried lately that the reason he wants to get married is cuz we are having a baby(he brought up getting married the same day we found out i was pregs). and while i want to marry him cuz i looooves him i've been a little resistant to the whole thing.
so i did what i always do ... i asked him if he wanted to get married cuz i was having a baby or if he'd marry me regardless. he said i was silly for asking.. and that i should know. i just looked at him... and said. dear i know u love me and that isn't the issue. u loved me in may and said u wouldn't marry me... and he said. i do love u and i think we are in a better place now then 6 months ago. we live together and we are getting along better. it's time to make forever plans don't u think?
yeah i do think.. but now i'm the one that wants to take it slow.. so is that ironic?
If u faithful reader (singular cuz there is only one of u) go into my archives and look up may 30th or so you will find a post about a conversation i had with my beau in which he tells me he loves me but doesn't have any plans to marry me(read the post). i was sad for a while, but quickly got over it knowing my beau can be over dramatic at times...
that weekend... also happens to be the weekend i got with child.. knocked up is that better? is that irony? cuz now we are in when we get married mode... the very night he was all i can't make forever plans right now we made a forever plan. so is that irony?
well i've been worried lately that the reason he wants to get married is cuz we are having a baby(he brought up getting married the same day we found out i was pregs). and while i want to marry him cuz i looooves him i've been a little resistant to the whole thing.
so i did what i always do ... i asked him if he wanted to get married cuz i was having a baby or if he'd marry me regardless. he said i was silly for asking.. and that i should know. i just looked at him... and said. dear i know u love me and that isn't the issue. u loved me in may and said u wouldn't marry me... and he said. i do love u and i think we are in a better place now then 6 months ago. we live together and we are getting along better. it's time to make forever plans don't u think?
yeah i do think.. but now i'm the one that wants to take it slow.. so is that ironic?
posted by Fea | 3:08 PM
2 Comments:
very smart.
Definitions of irony:
sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift
incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Irony is a form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words used. Irony involves the perception that things are not what they are said to be or what they seem. Dramatic irony lies in the audience's deeper perceptions of a coming fate, which contrast with a character's lack of knowledge about said fate. A common metaphor for using irony is to "have your tongue in cheek".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
A meaning (often contradictory) concealed behind the apparent meaning of a word or phrase.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/chap10.htm
A contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. Two kinds of irony are: 1) verbal irony, in which a writer or speaker says one thing and means something entirely different; and 2) dramatic irony in which a reader or audience member perceives something that a character in the story does not
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A contradiction or incongruity. (Compare ambiguity.) In literature, irony often falls into one of three categories. "Verbal Irony" occurs when words mean in context the opposite of what they say considered by themselves. "Situational Irony" occurs when one event is expected by another oppositional event occurs. ...
www2.cumberlandcollege.edu/acad/english/litcritweb/glossary.htm
refers to the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. The three kinds of irony used most often in these standards are situational, dramatic, and verbal.
www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cistandards2001/la/cilaglossary.htm
The mythos (sense 2) of the literature concerned primarily with a "realistic" level of experience, usually taking the form of a parody or contrasting analogue to romance. Such irony may be tragic or comic in its main emphasis; when comic it is normally identical with the usual meaning of satire.
www.sil.org/~radneyr/humanities/litcrit/gloss.htm
hiding what is actually reality in order to obtain a desired oratorical or artistic effect; a favorite technique for London's social commentary.
sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Essays/glossary.html
saying one thing whilst meaning another. Irony occurs when a word or phrase has a surface meaning, but another contradictory meaning beneath the surface. There are many types of irony: rhetorical; Socratic; dramatic being the most popular.
www.rydens.surrey.sch.uk/English05/Critical%20Terminology%20for%20A%20Level.htm
A misleading use of a visual image to present one thing to the viewer, but actually representing the opposite.
www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/E-IVocabulary.htm
ironía (a discrepancy between a literal statement and the speaker's attitude or intent);
www.dur.ac.uk/m.p.thompson/rhetoric.htm
Shakespeare used two types of irony:verbal and dramatic. Verbal irony is saying one things but meaning another. In Julius Caesar, when Mark Antony refers in his funeral oration to Brutus as "an honorable man" repeatedly, he really means the opposite. Dramatic irony occurs in a play when the audience knows facts that the characters in the play are ignorant of. ...
www.shakespeare-w.com/english/shakespeare/terms.html
a statement or plot which has an implicit meaning intended by the speaker which differs from that which the speaker ostensibly asserts
www.indiana.edu/~bestsell/glossary.html
the difference between how you might expect something to be and how it actually is, for example when the slaves in The Two Generals like the brother who believes in slavery more than the one who would set them free
www.longman.co.uk/tt_seceng/resources/glosauth.htm
a literary device which presents a conflict between appearance and reality; may be intentional or unintentional on the part of a character, but always intentional on the part of the author.
www.mc3.edu/aa/lal/workshops/LiteraryDefinitions.html
The meaning is opposite to the literal meaning of the words.
www.bucks.edu/tutor/literms.html
two separate and contrasting levels of meaning embedded in one message
www.iclasses.org/assets/literature/literary_glossary.cfm
saying [or writing] one thing, whilst meaning the opposite
www.nwlg.org/pages/resources/knowitall/resources/english.htm
Irony usually emphasizes the contrast between the way things are expected to be and the way they actually are. Here’s an example of irony: Medieval people believed that bathing would harm them when in fact not bathing led to the unsanitary conditions that caused the bubonic plague. Isn’t it ironic?
www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/newsat/chapter12section2.rhtml
is a result different from the expected.
www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/Writing/glossary.htm
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