Irony

Examples of Irony

~" Oh great! You broke my phone!"
~ Romeo thinks Juliet is dead so he kills himself. She then wakes up to find him dead and kills herself.
~ A traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.

Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in a different way than what is generally anticipated. Simply, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality.

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