Getting Ready for

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Getting Ready forTo Build a Fireby Jack London

• Brenda White
• Joplin High School
• Communication Arts 3 College Prep

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IRONY

• Verbal Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Situational Irony

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VERBAL IRONY

• This is the contrast between what is said and
  what is meant. Verbal irony is often sarcasm.

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DRAMATIC IRONY

• This is the contrast between what the character
  thinks to be true and what we (the readers) know
  to be true.
• Tragic Irony is a form of dramatic irony where a
  character may use words which have one meaning to
  him and a different meaning to the audience or
  reader.

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SITUATIONAL IRONY

• This is the contrast between what happens and
  what was expected (or what would seem
  appropriate).
• This is the most common form of irony in
  literature.

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REALISM

• Naturalism
• Determinism

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REALISM

• Is a slice of life.
• Deals with ordinary people.
• Discusses social questions and their impact on
  the individual.
• Is faithful to characters at the expense of
  action in the story.

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NATURALISM

• Falls under the Realism umbrella.
• In the man v. nature conflict, nature ALWAYS
  wins.

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DETERMINISM

• Human behavior is determined by forces outside
  the persons power.
• The philosophical doctrine stating that every
  state of affairs, including every human event,
  act and decision, is an inevitable consequence.
• Nature follows exact laws, so what will happen
  will happen.
• Diametrically opposed to free will.

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CONFLICT CHART
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The end ?