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Definition: Irony (add this to your vocabulary list of literary devices Contrast between expectation and reality—between what’s said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what is really true. Three kinds: verbal, situational, dramatic


 * Some visual examples to help in understanding: **
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 * And then some humor... **
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 * WU: Quote Response **

Passage 1: “He was lost in thought. The choice was in our hands. For once we could decide our fate for ourselves. We could both stay in the hospital, where I could, thanks to my doctor, get him entered as a patient or a nurse. Or else we could follow the others. ‘Well, what shall we do, father?’ He was silent. ‘Let’s be evacuated with the others,’ I said to him. He did not answer. He looked at my foot. ‘Do you think you can walk?’ ‘Yes, I think so.’ ‘Let’s hope that we shan’t regret it, Eliezer’ I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation”(78).

Passage 2:

“The head of the block suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to clean out the block. He ordered four prisoners to wash the wooden floor. . . An hour before leaving the camp! Why? For whom? ‘For the liberating army,’ he cried. ‘So that they’ll realize there were men living here and not pigs’ ”(80).

Pick **one** of the two passages above and discuss Wiesel’s **use of irony**. **What is ironic in the passage, and what is the effect of this irony?** What does it reveal about Elie, his father, concentration, the Nazis, the concept of free will, power, dehumanization, etc.? Use portions of the quoted passage to support your answer.

Humanity Chart: Complete the T-Chart on the back of Ch. 4 questions I gave back last class HW: Journal Entry #4 DUE Monday