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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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| An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning. |
| Socratic irony. |
| Dramatic irony. |
| An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic. |
| Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated ( Richard Kain). |
| A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1. |
| The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal 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. |