There are three different types of irony. Dramatic irony is when the reader or audience understands something that the characters do not. Situational irony is the difference between what happens and what was expected to happen. Verbal irony is when words express something contrary to the truth or when someone says the opposite of what they feel.
The passage, "May the Gods rain down all kinds of fortune on your lives, misfortune never harbor in your homeland," is from <em>The Odyssey</em>. Odysseus says this prayer after King Alcinous told the nobles to be generous with their gifts. It is ironic because Odysseus is the reasoning for their suffering. It is an example of situational irony because Odysseus is causing their misfortune and saying a prayer that there not be misfortune in their land.
Learn from yesterday --> whatever mistakes you made, don't repeat. learn from your experiences and apply it to your life today.
Live for today --> live in the present and don't always focus on things that could happen in the future. make sure to do what you want to do TODAY rather than putting it off.
Hope for tomorrow --> have dreams and don't stop dreaming. believe in yourself. pray and hope that tomorrow will bring even more fun experiences and happiness.
<span>The important thing is not to stop questioning --> never stop wondering about the world. have an open mind and continue to constantly learn new things. make discoveries. be curious.</span>
I believe this is an example of either situational or dramatic irony,
A) One day I had said that Italian seemed such an easy language to me that I could not take a great interest in it; everything was so easy to say. "Ah, yes," the major said.
These lines from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway, contribute to the prevailing mood of apathy in the story.
