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▸ noun:  (rhetoric) 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.
▸ noun:  (countable) An ironic statement.
▸ 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.
▸ noun:  Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
▸ noun:  (informal) Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the metal iron.

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