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Definitions of irony in various dictionaries:
noun - witty language used to convey insults or scorn
noun - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
noun - a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
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| 5-letter word for when the intended meaning is different from the literal meaning |
| When the audience knows something that one of the characters doesn't, it's dramatic this, isn't it? |
| In "Reality Bites" Ethan Hawke says it's when the actual meaning is different from the literal meaning |
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| of or like iron. |
| the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
| incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs |
| Irony is also something that has a different or opposite result from what is expected: |
| a type of usually humorous expression in which you say the opposite of what you intend: |
| the use of words that are the opposite of what you mean, as a way of being funny: |
| a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result: |
| Irony is a style of writing in which there is a noticeable, often humorous, difference between what is said and the intended meaning. |
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Irony (from Ancient Greek eirneía, meaning 'dissimulation, feigned ignorance'), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case. * Irony can be categorized into different types, including: verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used for emphasis in the assertion of a truth. The ironic form of simile, used in sarcasm, and some forms of litotes can emphasize one's meaning by the deliberate use of language which states the opposite of the truth, denies the contrary of the truth, or drastically and obviously understates a factual connection. Other forms, as identified by historian Connop Thirlwall, include dialectic and practical irony. |