USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Irony: A contradiction between appearance or expectation and reality. 1. Verbal irony is when a speaker says one thing and means something else or the opposite. 2. Dramatic irony is when an audience knows something that a character in the literature does not know.

Detailed explanation-2: -Irony is fundamental in storytelling. Irony is the opposite of expectation. When what we expect to happen doesn’t happen, it creates conflict.

Detailed explanation-3: -In writing, there are three types of irony-verbal, situational, and dramatic. Verbal irony is when a person says one thing but means the opposite; Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected happens; and. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that characters do not.

Detailed explanation-4: -Situational irony is the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected. Some everyday examples of situational irony are a fire station burning down, or someone posting on Twitter that social media is a waste of time.