Question

Which situation best shows irony?A. A surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery.B. A surgeon usually has six surgeries in a single day, but today he only had five.C. A surgeon cracks jokes to his assistants while performing a hip replacement.D. A surgeon performs a procedure with another surgeon who is much older than he is.

Answer 1

A.
Irony is basically when something is the opposite of what it usually is. And it’s so uncannily strange, that it is humorous. For example: if a man named John was a murderer, it would be ironic if he worked in criminal justice, and investigated a murderer whose name was John. Does that make sense?

Answer 2

The correct answer is A. A surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery.

Step-by-step explanation:

The irony is a rhetorical device used for humor in which an incongruence between expectations and reality is presented or incongruence between the words said and their meaning. Because of this irony is often classified into situational irony which refers to a difference between expectation and reality; the verbal irony that occurs when the words said mean the opposite and dramatic irony that occurs in literature when the audience knows something other characters do not. This implies, from the options presented the situation that show irony (situational irony) is "A surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery" because it is not expected a surgeon needs a surgery after he/she has been doing surgeries which implies an incongruence or difference between what is expected and what really happens or an ironic situation.