Irony

Irony

Verbal Irony

An incongruity between what is said and what is meant

For example, your date comes to pick you up, and he looks like this:

What could you say that is verbally ironic?

Dramatic Irony

When the audience knows something that at least one character does not

Situational Irony

When you expect one thing to happen and the opposite occurs- "perverse appropriateness"- it fits in a twisted way