Today we talked about irony. Definition: a figure of speech in which the intended meaning and the actual meaning differ, characteristically using praise to indicate the blame or using blame to indicate praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning. There are different types of irony and they are; situational, verbal, dramatic, and tragic (which is a form of dramatic irony). I found two websites that told me valuable information about irony: The oatmeal.com and oxfordlearnersdictionary. You have to be careful though because most irony is NOT irony, it most likely is unfortunate.
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