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Irony
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a literary term that always inplies some kind of contrast, contradiction or discrepancy between what is expected and what results
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Verbal Irony
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a character or narrator says one thing but means the opposite (or, at least something quite different)
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Dramatic Irony
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the reader (or audience in the case or a play) knows something that a character does not know
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Irony of situation
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the most commo9n from of iront found in stories
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why do authors use irony
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by using irony, writers are better able to show how contradictioory an inconsistant both life anf human beings can often be
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