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Irony logo #10101) Arch writing 2) Asteism 3) Biting wit 4) Bitter humor 5) Bitter stuff 6) Caustic remark 7) Certain humor 8) Certain literary device 9) Cheating on an ethics exam 10) Comedic device 11) Common literary device 12) Contradictory humor 13) Contrary outcome 14) Cynicism 15) Derision 16) Device common on Seinfeld
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Irony logo #10101) Dryness 2) Enantiosis 3) Ferric 4) Inconsistency 5) Ridicule 6) Sarcasm 7) Satire 8) Trope
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  1. witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  2. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
  3. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

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Irony logo #21002• (a.) Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property. • (n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. • (n.) A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words. • (a.) Made o...
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Irony logo #20629a device where words conveying a meaning different from the apparent meaning are used, sometimes to emphasise a point or a situation. Dramatic irony occurs when an audience is given privileged information which is unknown to the relevant character(s). e.g. Spoken by a dying man who is unaware of his condition; 'I think the future is a bright and be...
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Irony logo #21416hiding what is actually reality in order to obtain a desired oratorical or artistic effect; a favorite technique for London's social commentary.
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Irony logo #22385Cicero referred to irony as 'saying one thing and meaning another.' Irony comes in many forms. Verba
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Irony logo #10444Contained in much theatre. When a word or action implies or conveys the opposite meaning to that we expect.
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Irony logo #20972I'ron·y adjective [ From Iron .] 1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. [ R.] Woodward. 2. Resembling iron in taste, hardness, or other physical property.
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Irony logo #20972I'ron·y noun [ Latin ironia , Greek ... dissimulation, from ... a dissembler in speech, from ... to speak; perhaps akin to English word : confer French ironie .] 1. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 2. A so...
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Irony logo #20492Irony is the name given to the effect of meaning created when one thing is said or written but another - sometimes opposite - thing is meant. In speech this effect is created by tone of voice in writing by carefully chosen lexis. The study of such meaning falls within the area known as pragmatics.…
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Irony logo #20166Figure of speech in which the ordinary meaning of the words is more or less the opposite of what the poet intends.
In his poem Don Juan, Byron makes great use of irony. Don Juan  is also ironically dedicated to Robert Southey and the other Lake Poets. (Byron's irony could be called 'Byrony' - boom, boom.)
Another poem employing irony is Ve...
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Irony logo #21217Irony (from the Greek eironeia meaning dissimulation), is a form of speech in which the meaning intended to be conveyed is contrary to the natural meaning of the words. Irony, as a rhetorical device, becomes a most effective weapon for ridiculing an antagonist. Some of the Athenian orators were great masters of this refined mode of derision.
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Irony logo #20165expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another.
*Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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irony logo #21009irony (s), ironies (pl) 1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. 2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. 3. Something that happens that is inc...
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irony logo #24155an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. There are several forms of irony. Verbal irony is when a writer or speaker says one thing and means something else (often the opposite of what is said). When the audience perceives something that a character does not know, that is dramatic irony. Situational irony can be described as a ...
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Irony logo #23196A deliberate contrast between indirect and direct meaning to draw attention to the opposite.
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Irony logo #23818Irony is when there are two contradicting meanings of the same situation, event, image, sentence, phrase, or story. In many cases, this refers to the difference between expectations and reality.
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Irony logo #24161Contradictions that reveal a reality that differs from what appears to be true.
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irony logo #23421 an implied discrepancy between the actual event or statement and what is meant.
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irony logo #20974 noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; `the irony of Ireland`s copying the nation she most hated`
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Irony logo #23752incongruity between situations developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that are understood by the audience (but not by the characters); also called dramatic irony.
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irony logo #23665 incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
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irony logo #23665[Literary terms] incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
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irony logo #23665[Literary terms] incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
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