Different types of irony
Irony is when something happens against what one have expected.
There are different types of irony :
1 verbal irony
When one say something but means differently.
E.g. you are so horrible. When you mean to say you are so intelligent.
" yes, you are very much intelligent " means that you are a fool.
2 dramatic irony
In a drama when a character is ignorant of the coming situation but the audience know that what's going to happen.
E.g. in Julius Caesar, Caesar is going to the Senate, he is unaware of the plot of his murder, but the audience know that. Writer use dramatic irony to develop audience interest in the action.
3 situational irony
It is that irony, when a person has intended to do something but suddenly happens something else. E.g.
A person who has prepared himself sited booted to attend an interview, but in the way he fell in a ditch of water due to dogs barking.
4 Socratic irony
It is said that Socrates would used to show himself an ignorant in front of the youth of his time and would ask them questions like what is virtue, what is morality etc. In order to gain knowledge.
So when a person feign ignorance and act like an ignorant is called Socratic irony. We can see it in hamlet by Shakespeare when hamlet feigns madness in order to know about the death of his father.
Thanks! By Usman Khan
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