What Is Irony?

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week we have been making ironic comic's. Me, Bella, and Sofia, chose to do dramatic irony. Irony occurs when what we observe is the direct opposite of what we expect to have seen. We most often use it to add humor to an idea, often for entertainment or to lighten a situation. We can also use it to make our audience think deeper about the idea we are trying to explain. To understand how to use irony we must know how to create irony, and we must understand it's three forms, situational irony, dramatic irony, and last but not least verbal irony. Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. Dramatic irony is defined as when an audience watching a play understands what's going on in a situation while the characters are unaware of what is happening. Verbal Irony is when words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean. Verbal irony is often sarcastic.