What does irony mean?
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Irony is best known as a figure of speech (more precisely called verbal irony) in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood
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apparently, you're not a fan of irony.\nit's like long is shorter than short.
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I would call that extemely ironic.....and funny.
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1) Oedipus Rex is perhaps the most famous example of dramatic irony you will encounter.\n\n***You know that dramatic irony is when we know more than the characters (or speakers) involved.***  Since you have that in mind, here are some more examples:\n\n2) Protocols by Randal Jarrell\n\nWe went there on the train. They had big barges that they towed.\nWe stood up, there were so many I was squashed.\nThere was a smoke-stack, then they made me wash.\nIt was a factory, I think. My mother held me up\nAnd I could see the ship that made the smoke.\nWhen I was tired my mother carried me.\nShe said, "Don't be afraid." But I was only tired.\nWhere we went there is no more .Odessa.\nThey had water in a pipe--like rain, but hot;\nThe water there is deeper than the world\nAnd I was tired and fell in in my sleep\nAnd the water drank me. That is what I think.\nAnd I said to my mother, "Now I'm washed and dried.”\nMy mother hugged me and it smelled like hay\nAnd that is how you die. And that is how you die.\n\n***Dramatic irony in that the child thinks she is "washed and dried" when in fact we know she was killed in a camp during the holocaust.***\n\n                                                               \n\n3) The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter \nby Ezra Pound.\n\n                                 \nWhile my hair was still cut straight across my forehead\nI played about the front gate, pulling flowers.\nYou came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,\nYou walked about my seat, playing with blue plums,\nAnd we went on living in the village of Chokan:\nTwo small people, without dislike or suspicion.\n\nAt fourteen I married My Lord you.\nI never laughed, being bashful.\nLowering my head, I looked at the wall.\nCalled to, a thousand times, I never looked back.\n\nAt fifteen, I stopped scowling,\nI desired my dust to be mingled with yours\nForever and forever and forever.\nWhy should I climb the lookout.\n\nAt sixteen you departed.\nYou went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,\nAnd. you have been gone five months.\nThe monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.\n\nYou dragged your feet when you went out.\nBy the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,\nToo deep to clear them away!\nThe leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.\nThe paired butterflies are already yellow with August\nOver the grass in the West garden;\nThey hurt me. I grow older.\n\nIf you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,\nPlease let me know beforehand,\nAnd I will come out to meet you\n                As far as Cho-fu-Sa.\n\n***Dramatic irony since we know the guy (a bastard who takes advantage of young girls) will never return, yet she waits and hopes).***\n\nRegards,\n\nMysstere
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First, I can't recognize the sentence in the title question... it doesn't make sense in any language I know of...  from what I can tell, it's complete gibberish... Did your cat happen to run across your keyboard?\n\nSecondly, I think the ability to understand irony and sarcasm is a function of intelligence.  Also, there is a difference between understanding irony and sarcasm and appreciating irony and sarcasm.  Appreciating it is a function of a person's sense of humor, which I think is at least a little culturally based.  As an American, I can assure you that many of us do appreciate irony and sarcasm; and as an American who has lived in Texas, California, and New York, I can tell you that I have been much freer to express my sarcastic self since I moved to New York.\n\nThe problem is that so many people misuse sarcasm and irony because they really don't know what they are.  Well timed and well crafted irony is, in my opinion, the most beautiful thing in any language.  So you should feel free to use irony and sarcasm as long as they're a part of an intelligent joke or observation, given that you execute them properly (so... not just as a snide comment, which I've found is how most people are sarcastic, and that's just no fun at all).\n\nAs far as these things being part of a language issue, I speak Spanish, and I've been able to be successfully sarcastic and ironic in Spanish.  I haven't tried in any other language that I speak because I'm most fluent in Spanish (after English), and I'm not as advanced in the others.  And since I already sound like a small, slightly retarded child when I speak the others (and sometimes in Spanish and English as well), I'd rather not fail horribly in making a joke on top of it all.  At least with sarcasm, a lot of it has to do with the tone of voice.  So, the speaker has to feel comfortable enough speaking the language to be able to manipulate their tone appropriately, and that definitely requires a certain amount of expertise.\n\nOh, and also (last thing, I promise), it's much harder to be successfully ironic and sarcastic online, or in writing generally.  When you can't impose a tone on your words in writing, it's much easier for people to miss the humor.  I think that's why Oscar Wilde is so popular; it's really difficult to write in an ironic or sarcastic tone, and yet his tone is always unmistakeable.  Unless you're dumb.
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In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.\nIt's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:\nWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
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It usually means you're joking or think something's funny.
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It means a quotation or saying
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What is the context? Usually, it is just a decoration for the word. In certain instances, it could be the code to insert a smiley, like ((*sad*)).
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It's a Satire which means that something is said in a funny way, like the small people's problems while they mean a real problem.
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Wit is clever, humour is funny. Wit can sometimes be scathing, and hurtful -- at other times, it can be a flick of light illuminating an especially silly condition. Many comedic remarks about politicians are witty. Humour is downright funny, and can generate guffaws and belly laughs. It is more broadly understood, too. Wit is often something that requires an 'in' component to completely understand.
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What the heck does that mean?
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Nice use of irony. Almost Swiftian. Keep up the good work.
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Irony is where something different happens than what is expected.  Why would Hamlet call the ghost poor?  Personally, I would be saying "Poor me!  I saw a ghost!  I have creepy powers and can see dead people!!!)
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is that questino meant to be ironic?
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Satire is a literary technique which pokes fun at a subject by pointing out its inconsistencies or mess ups. Typically, it's used to provoke or prevent something changing. The targets can be an individual organization or a state. \nex. The Onion\n\nProse is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech.
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Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.\n\nSynesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor. The word synesthesia comes from two Greek words, syn (together) and aisthesis (perception). Therefore, synesthesia literally means "joined perception.\n\nAlliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.\n\nAssonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within a short passage of verse or prose.\n\n\nUsing the above definitions you should be capable to come to your own results.