irony
rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is an incongruity between the literal and the implied meaning
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irony
Summary
irony is a stylistic device[1]. irony draws 367 Wikipedia views per month (stylistic_device category, ranking #16 of 107).[2]
Key Facts
- irony's image is recorded as Situational irony - Baker Street tube station.jpg[3].
- irony's instance of is recorded as stylistic device[4].
- irony's instance of is recorded as genre[5].
- irony's GND ID is recorded as 4027676-4[6].
- irony's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85068254[7].
- irony's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11935382p[8].
- irony's subclass of is recorded as trope[9].
- irony's subclass of is recorded as usage[10].
- irony's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00560110[11].
- irony's Commons category is recorded as Irony[12].
- irony's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 6190[13].
- irony's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c3dq[14].
- irony's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph121191[15].
- irony's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Irony[16].
- irony's spoken text audio is recorded as Ironie.ogg[17].
- irony's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300055900[18].
- irony's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1505159[19].
- irony's Iconclass notation is recorded as 57BB241[20].
- irony's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[21].
- irony's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
- irony's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
- irony's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24].
- irony's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[25].
- irony's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[26].
- irony's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/irony[27].
Why It Matters
irony draws 367 Wikipedia views per month (stylistic_device category, ranking #16 of 107).[2] irony has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] irony is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]