The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.
The lines of this part of the choral song.
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
The repetition of words in an inverse order.
Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
An ironic statement.
Of or pertaining to the metal iron.
The food had an irony taste to it.