IELTS Study Material: Irony, Explained
Right. But then irony, as you said rightly. Most of the times it's misunderstood. Correct. When you expect something to happen and it happens in an opposite fashion, we call it an irony. Okay. Or sometimes people say, ironically, this has happened. Right. So it is mostly strange and amusing, which you never expect. Okay. So the expectation for a certain thing but the reality being the opposite of that expected thing exactly. Is what irony is. Exactly