Types Of Irony, Verbal Irony

As discussed there are lots and lots of different types of irony, which doesn't make an ironist's life any easier. Below are the major types of irony you're likely to come across. Most people associate most heavily with the "Situational" or "Cosmic" irony - you've probably heard of it as Sod's Law or Murphy's law.

• Literary Irony, Socratic Irony (eg. playing the fool for gain)
• Dramatic / Tragic Irony (also known as Shakespearean Irony and takes the form of the audience knowing something that the protagonist does not)
• Situational/Cosmic Irony (for example, fate - personified and "playing games", think, for example, Sod's law)
• Postmodern Irony (for example, metafiction)