cartoon vs irony

cartoon

noun
  • An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous. 

  • A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc. 

  • A diagram in a scientific concept. 

  • A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings. 

  • A drawing satirising current public figures. 

  • An artist's preliminary sketch. 

verb
  • To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing. 

  • To make a preliminary sketch. 

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 cartoon and irony occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )