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Some abuse the law by publishing extremism or defamation without a smiley or other indication of satire, and if there is too much criticism towards it, reply that it was only an irony. As early as 1983, Jerry Schwarz, in a post on Usenet, wrote: Avoid sarcasm and facetious remarks.
"Sarcasm does not necessarily involve irony and irony has often no touch of sarcasm". [85] Irony: "A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt". [86]
Dramatic Irony is when the reader knows something important about the story that one or more characters in the story do not know. For example, in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the drama of Act V comes from the fact that the audience knows Juliet is alive, but Romeo thinks she's dead. If the audience had thought, like Romeo, that she ...
Irony for Brooks is "the obvious warping of a statement by the context" [6] whereas paradox is later glossed as a special kind of qualification that "involves the resolution of opposites." [7] Irony functions as a presence in the text – the overriding context of the surrounding words that make up the poem.
Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, [2] although it is not necessarily ironic. [3] Most noticeable in spoken word, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoken [4] or, with an undercurrent of irony, by the extreme disproportion of the comment to the situation, and is largely context-dependent. [5]
A prominent feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic Northrop Frye— [2] but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, [3] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to ...
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The difference between verbal irony and sarcasm is exquisitely subtle and often contested. The concept of irony is too often misunderstood in popular usage. Unfortunate circumstances and coincidences do not constitute irony (nor do they qualify as being tragic). See the Usage controversy section under irony, and the term tragedy.