Irony in sentence

484 examples of Irony in a sentence

It's a devastating irony, how we have gone forward as individuals, and backwards as communities.

But that's the irony.

The irony in all of this, of course, is that having just carefully classified all of the signs into a single category, I have a feeling that my next step will involve breaking it back apart as different types of imagery are identified and separated off.

Do you laugh along with the laugh track and let this grievous misinterpretation of irony go?

Or, do you throw caution to the wind and explain the true meaning of irony?

Unfortunately, irony has been completely misunderstood.

And while many examples of true irony can be funny, that is not the driving factor of being ironic.

If you expect A, but get B, then you have irony.

When he does, reality aligns with expectations, and so that is not irony.

Then, when that reasonable expectation was not met by the tripping sidekick, irony would have been exemplified.

So when Granny pulls out her smart phone to post pictures of her dentures or her grandkids, irony ensues.

Go out, and find those true examples of irony.

The two genres might seem totally different, but the reason they're both so popular is perhaps because what they have in common: their use of dramatic irony.

There are three types of irony out there.

Situational irony is when you expect one thing, but get the opposite.

Verbal irony is when someone says something, but truly means the opposite.

Dramatic irony, though, is what we will be looking at right now.

Dramatic irony is when the audience seems to know more about an event, a situation, or a conversation than the characters in the movie, on the show, or in the book do.

That tension is dramatic irony: you know something more than the characters in the film.

This isn't the same tension as the horror film since it is probably pretty funny as the character tries to figure out the whos and the whats, but it serves as a great example of the tension and suspense of dramatic irony.

The audience wants, no, needs, to see the tension of the dramatic irony broken either by the scary person jumping out of the shadows or by someone finally revealing someone's true identity and clearing up the confusion.

So, when you feel like you are in on a secret, that is dramatic irony, a hallmark of all the great writers, from Shakespeare to Hitchcock.

This slight change of attitude behind the lines reveals what we call verbal irony.

This is verbal irony when the speaker says the opposite of what he means.

When a speaker says the opposite of what he means, that is verbal irony.

That is verbal irony and that is sarcastic.

"You're a talented athlete," said to an Olympian: authentic, no verbal irony present.

That is verbal irony.

While all sarcasm fits the definition of verbal irony, not all verbal irony is sarcastic.

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