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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
Irony
Explanation and Analysis—“Regressive” Leonard:
In an example of situational irony, an automated police car arrests Mead and takes him to a psychiatric facility for the completely normal act of walking through his own neighborhood at night. The irony of this moment comes across in the following passage, after Mead asks the police car where it is taking him:
The car hesitated, or rather gave a faint whirring click, as if information, somewhere, was dropping card by punch-slotted card under electric eyes, "To the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies."
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