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Scaife, Ross. "A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples." The University of Kentucky, 2005
Scaife, Ross. "A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples." The University of Kentucky, 2005
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Irony: noun: the outcome of events contrary to what was expected.(175)

Irony: [L ironia, fr. Gk eironia, fr. eiron: dissembler] 1)the use of words to express the opposite of what one really means 2) incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result. (263)

Rhetorical terms-A Glossary of Rhetorical terms by Ross Scaife at the Unviersity of Kentucky




Works Cited

"Irony". A Student's Dictionary and Gazetteer 8th edition, 2005.

"Irony". Webster's New Dictionary of the English Language New Edition, 2005.

Scaife, Ross. "A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples." The University of Kentucky, 2005