Irony Example : Our teacher defines irony as ...
Taken from Category: Literary
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Is it ironic that...
our teacher defines irony as "incongruity between what happens and what is expected to happen", hands us a book of short stories and tells us that they all have ironic endings, thus making us expect ironic endings?
60% say this is NOT IRONIC
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Readers' verdict
- 60% NOT IRONIC
- 40% IRONIC
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