What is dramatic irony?

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To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Objective:

To know what dramatic irony means.

To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.

To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Dramatic Irony - When the audience knows more information than the characters.

Viewpoint – A person's opinion or point of view.

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Objective:

To know what dramatic irony means.

To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.

To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Read through Birling’s speech which starts:

‘Just let me finish Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet’

To

‘except of course in Russia, which will always be behindhand naturally’

Highlight quotations on the handout to show use of dramatic irony.

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Just let me finish, Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet. And I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn’t a chance of war. The world’s developing so fast it’ll make war impossible. Look at the progress we’re making. In a year of two we’ll have aeroplanes that will be able to go anywhere. And look at the way the auto-mobile’s making headway-bigger and faster all the time. And then ships. Why, a friend of mine went over this new liner last week – the Titanic – she sails next week – forty six thousand eight hundred tons – New York in five days – and every luxury –and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

That’s why you’ve got to keep your eye on, facts like that, progress like that – and not a few German officers talking nonsense and a few scaremongers here making a fuss about nothing. Now you three young people, just listen to this – and remember what I’m telling you now. In twenty or thirty years’ time – let’s say, in 1940 – you may be giving a little party like this – your son or daughter might be getting engaged – and I tell you, by that time you’ll be living in a world that’ll have forgotten all these Capital versus Labour agitations and all these silly little war scares. There’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere – except of course in Russia, which will always be behindhand naturally.

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Objective:

To know what dramatic irony means.

To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.

To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Mr Birling

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Why does Priestley use dramatic irony in Mr Birling’s speech?

How does Priestley want the audience to respond to Mr Birling?

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Priestley uses dramatic irony in Birling’s speech to make him appear ridiculous: ‘And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’ The audience are aware that there has been two world wars since the time the play is set. Therefore the audience will think Birling is ridiculous as they know he is wrong. Mr Birling makes his claim with confidence by stating there “isn’t a chance” which shows his arrogance. This will make an audience dislike Birling and therefore his capitalist views, which is Priestley’s intentions.

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Priestley uses dramatic irony in Birling’s speech to make him appear ridiculous: ‘And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’ The audience are aware that there has been two world wars since the time the play is set. Therefore the audience will think Birling is ridiculous as they know he is wrong. Mr Birling makes his claim with confidence by stating there “isn’t a chance” which shows his arrogance. This will make an audience dislike Birling and therefore his capitalist views, which is Priestley’s intentions.

Point

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Priestley uses dramatic irony in Birling’s speech to make him appear ridiculous: ‘And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’ The audience are aware that there has been two world wars since the time the play is set. Therefore the audience will think Birling is ridiculous as they know he is wrong. Mr Birling makes his claim with confidence by stating there “isn’t a chance” which shows his arrogance. This will make an audience dislike Birling and therefore his capitalist views, which is Priestley’s intentions.

Point

Evidence

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Priestley uses dramatic irony in Birling’s speech to make him appear ridiculous: ‘And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’ The audience are aware that there has been two world wars since the time the play is set. Therefore the audience will think Birling is ridiculous as they know he is wrong. Mr Birling makes his claim with confidence by stating there “isn’t a chance” which shows his arrogance. This will make an audience dislike Birling and therefore his capitalist views, which is Priestley’s intentions.

Point Evidence

Explain

Technique

Reader

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Why does Priestley use dramatic irony in Birling’sspeech and how does Priestley want the audience to respond to Mr Birling?

Priestley uses dramatic irony to in Birling’s speech to make him appear ridiculous: ‘And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’ The audience are aware that there has been two world wars since the time the play is set. Therefore the audience will think Birling is ridiculous as they know he is wrong. Mr Birling makes his claim with confidence by stating there “isn’t a chance” which shows his arrogance. This will make an audience dislike Birling and therefore his capitalist views, which is Priestley’s intentions.

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Objective:

To know what dramatic irony means.

To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.

To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint

Read your partner’s work.

Have they commented on the writer’s intentions and the effect on the audience?

Give a WWW and an EBI.

To know what dramatic irony means.To understand why Priestley uses dramatic irony.To be able to identify and understand the main viewpoints in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and identify the effect of specific literary techniques used by Priestley.

Key Words:Dramatic Irony

Viewpoint