Juliette Lewis

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

American Actress

Jonathan Pryce

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

Welsh Actor

Ellen Glasgow

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

American Novelist

Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

American Writer

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

English Actor

Robert A. Heinlein

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Mason Cooley

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Serj Tankian

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

American Musician

Wes Studi

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

American Actor

Adam West

Irony often involves an outcome that's surprising compared with what was planned or intended.

Unexpected Outcome

Irony can be common in everyday situations, not only literature or drama.

Real World Events

Identifying irony requires recognizing a deviation between expectations and reality.

Observational Skills

Overusing or misusing irony can confuse listeners or come across as insincere.

Use with Caution

When speaking, tone and inflection often indicate when a statement is meant ironically.

Tone of Voice

Understanding the speaker's intention is vital to catching irony in conversation.

Context Matters

In literature, irony can highlight a bigger message or theme the author is conveying.

Reflecting Themes

Irony in stories often serves to surprise the reader and add depth to the plot.

Enhancing Surprise

Authors use irony to challenge readers' expectations and evoke thought.

Subverting Expectations

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How to gain control of...

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 Others can affect entire nations, such as cycles of corrupt government or climate change. But the cruel irony of welfare traps in particular is that they stem from the very policies designed to battle poverty. Most societies throughout history employed some strategies to help people in poverty meet basic needs.

Why is it so hard to...

 Verbal irony is when someone says something, but truly means the opposite. Dramatic irony, though, is what we will be looking at right now. Dramatic irony is when the audience seems to know more about an event, a situation, or a conversation than the characters in the movie, on the show, or in the book do.

In on a secret? That's...

 but he has said the opposite. This is verbal irony when the speaker says the opposite of what he means. I know what you're thinking. Isn't this sarcasm, isn't the speaker being sarcastic? Yes. When a speaker says the opposite of what he means,

What is verbal irony? -...

 they also have more -- how shall I say this on this stage? They know each other more in the biblical sense as well. Message number Don't leave before you leave. I think there's a really deep irony to the fact that actions women are taking --

Why we have too few...

 It's not the absurdity of bureaucracy alone, but the irony of the character's circular reasoning in reaction to it that is emblematic of Kafka's writing. His tragicomic stories act as a form of mythology for the modern industrial age,

What makes something...

 brood they destroyed is the only mother they'll ever know more irony the cichlid mom fails to sense the switch she treats the catfish as if they were her own scooping them up to protect them at the

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 sweeping across the forest floor. To find prey, the ants must first touch it. The irony is that this, the most successful hide-and-seek player in the forest, is almost completely blind.

Army Ants Rampage...

 That is irony. So while the cake dropper might not be ironic, there are all kinds of situations in life that are. Go out, and find those true examples of irony.