irony
The irony of the situation is that if she had just ignored it, everything would have been fine.Johnathan Swift used irony in this essay, A Modest Proposal.
Sure! Here's an example: "The fire station burned down." This statement is ironic because fire stations are supposed to prevent fires, not be destroyed by them.
Neither of the listed sentences show irony.
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verbal irony had to do with words, but situational irony has to do wit events.
It's ironic that most sentences beginning "It's ironic that ..." are not ironic. Like that one.I'll think of another nine later, whne I am feeling less cynical.
In the excerpt from William Dean Howells's Editha, the following sentences use an ironic tone: "Will you take up the whole burden of it if anything happens to him?" "It was as if she could not say enough, and she wanted him to say more." These sentences reflect a contrast between what is being said and what is actually meant, creating irony in the text.
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irony of intuition
Another name for situational irony is irony of events.
irony