While dramatic irony entails a contrast between what an audience knows and what characters know, verbal irony is a contrast between words and their meaning, and situational irony is a contrast between ...

Irony is one of those things you kind of know when you see or hear it on screen, but it's much harder to define and put into layman's terms.

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.