ELA-Author-Irony-AR

Author's Craft - Irony - Nonprint - Audiovisual Resources


 * K-2**
 * //What One Can Invent// (Assignment Discovery: Exploring the Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) Discovery Channel School, [|ETV Streamline] (10:30) Consider irony in storytelling with Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the failed poet and a clever old woman.

**//**Twilight Zone**// **episode [|"Time Enough at Last" (Episode 1 Season 8, 1959)]** starring Burgess Meredith as a bookworm who yearns for more time to read--then a nuclear holocaust leaves him alone in the world with lots of time, plenty to read, and one ironic twist! View the [|entire episode here](24:54), or view [|Part 2 here] (8:29) and view [|Part 3 here] (7:49) (Part 1 is not available through youtube.com at this time).
 * E1-E4

//**Imagery and Irony**//**,** **(Discovering Language Arts: Fiction) [|ETV Streamline], (9:16)** Erich Maria Remarque revealed the horrors of World War I in his landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front. See how he uses sensory images and irony to describe the dehumanization of war.

//[|**The Wizard of Oz**] DVD. ASIN: B00000JS62. Irony abounds in Dorothy's dream as the Cowardly Lion has no courage, the Tin Man has no heart, and Scarecrow (who talks) has no brain. [|Family Guy allusion to Wizard of Oz] ironic use of today's language thought patterns gleaned from film in contrast with those of 1939. //