✏ The Importance of Being Earnest explores all of the types of irony: verbal, dramatic, situational and cosmic. Find irony in the play you are reading outside of class and discuss its effectiveness to the plot structure of the overall play.
✏ Why would Oscar Wilde choose to have several people use the name Ernest, and what is the importance of being Ernest or earnest, anyway? This is a play on words. In your outside reading play, find a situation where your author has specifically used connotation that is different than denotation that adds meaning or depth to the reading of the text. Write about it.
✏ When Lady Bracknell judges Cecily, she uses parentage, background, and money. She does not ask about her personality, goals, or anything about who Cecily is individually. Write about something in the play you are reading in the play outside of class that is similar. What happens to the characters? Are they flat/static or round/multi-dimensional and have empathetic readings. (This would be a character study).
