imagery vs irony

imagery

noun
  • Unreal show; imitation; appearance. 

  • Imitation work. 

  • Images in general, or en masse. 

  • Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. 

  • The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. 

  • The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects. 

irony

noun
  • 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. 

  • Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. 

  • Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the metal iron. 

  • The food had an irony taste to it. 

How often have the words imagery and irony occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )