IRONY

=   using words to mean the opposite of what they actually mean

  

1. You look SO nice tonight.

2. That's OK, I like people to come in late and step on my toes.

IRONY

TYPES

• verbal irony = opposite of what is meant
  
  

• dramatic irony = contrast between what a character says and what the reader knows
  
  Mrs. May in "Greenleaf"
  
  

• irony of situation = discrepancy between expectation and fulfillment
  
  Rainsford in "The Most Dangerous Game"

IRONY