While all irony functions on the basis of undermining expectations, this can be done in different ways. Let’s look at the different types of irony in literature and how you can make them work in your own writin
Verbal irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. (Oxford Dictionary) (2) Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony is an event the significance of which is known only to observers (typically, the audience) and...
In the book A Long Way Gone, what is the theme that supports the use of irony throughout the book? Sierra Leone Civil War: The Sierra Leone Civil War was fought between 1991 and 2002. Charles Taylor and his followers sought to overthrow the government of...
As a literary device, irony is often misunderstood. Although many of us learn about irony in our high school English classes through works of theater like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet or Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, many people feel unsure of what irony means—or how t...
Irony consists of saying one thing while we mean another. It is not easy to define irony exactly, but we can say that it is the expression of one's meaning by language of opposite or different tendency, especially the adoption of another's views or tone.
In this sense, this chapter aims at evaluating how two specific domains of FL, sarcasm and irony, affect Sentiment Analysis (SA) tools. The study's ultimate goal is to find out if FL hinders the performance (polarity detection) of SA systems due to the presence of ironic context. Our ...
When trying to define anything, it's usually pretty prudent to start with a dictionary definition and then discuss what it means and how ironic situations generally follow the so-called official rules. So: irony 1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to ...
At face value the lines between verbal irony sarcasm and compliments can be blurry. After all the phrase 'That looks nice' could be all three depending on the circumstances. In the final of a three part series on irony Christopher Warner gets into the irony you may use most...
2:a) the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b) a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c) an ironic expression or utterance 3:a) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events...
Types of Irony 1. Situational Ninth century Chinese alchemists created gunpowder while trying to make an immortality elixir. The Kudzu vine introduced to the U.S to prevent soil erosion now chokes trees and other plants. 2. Verbal The literal meaning of a sentence is the opposite of what was...