in language: the relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb in a...
Glossary
irony
Subject:
- English First Additional Language
- English Home Language
a figure of speech in which one thing is said and another is to be understood; alternatively, one thing is said, but circumstances show that the opposite is the case (called situational irony), e.g. saying It is a good thing we came early when the cinema is almost empty.