Unit 4: Lesson 3: A Mystery of Heroism, War Is Kind, Stephen Crane, Verbal Irony, and Situational Irony

The skills that you will be tested over from this lesson are identifying Situational Irony and identifying  Verbal Irony.

An example Situational Irony would be: A man is walking on a sidewalk . He sees a dog shaking water out of his coat. The man jumps off of the sidewalk to avoid getting wet. The man lands in a mud puddle and gets drenched.

An example of Understatement would be if you said, "Disney World is okay", when it's really your favorite place in the whole world. An example of Exaggeration/Overstatement would be if I said, "I told you to do your homework 1000 times!" Sarcasm is when you say the exact opposite of how you really feel. For example, if I said, "I love it when you guys don't do your homework", that would be sarcasm.


Watch the following video to learn about Stephen Crane, the author of "A Mystery of Heroism" and "War is Kind." When he recites "War is Kind" in the video, look for examples of Verbal Irony.

You will need to read "A Mystery of Heroism" and look for examples of Situational Irony. To review, we played a WAR trivia game over these two selections in the class following this lesson.