I used to think the only definition of irony was when you sold your gold watch to buy your wife combs for Christmas, only to find out that she cut off all of her long, beautiful hair in order to sell it to buy you a watch fob for your gold watch.
Apparently, that is not the only definition. From our friends at dictionary.com:
i-ro-ny
[ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]-noun, plural -nies.| 1. | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend. |
| 2. | Literature.| a. | a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. |
| b. | (esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion. |
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| 5. | an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. |
| 6. | the incongruity of this. |
| 7. | an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing. |
| 8. | an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.
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Thank you, Suddenlink, Obscurecraft, and Google ads. You have broadened my ironic horizons.
