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Categories: Humour, Fiction, Theme, Tropes by type, History of ideas

irony Antiphrases Antiphrastic Antiphrastical Antiphrastically

A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs WordNet 3.0

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A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected; it is an important rhetorical device and literary technique. Wikipedia

Literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does. Wikipedia Disambiguation

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