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Definition of Irony
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this seems like a loose definition... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how... read full definition
Key Examples in A Clockwork Orange
Part 3, Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Alex Replaced:
In Part 3, Chapter 1, there is a moment of situational irony. After Alex is released from Staja Prison, he goes to a café and imagines the relief and excitement his parents, whom he often calls pee and em, will feel at his arrival:
What it was going to be now, brothers, was homeways and a nice surprise for dadada and mum, their only son and heir back in the family bosom.
