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Originally posted by noahfor
For instance, that reporter getting killed while covering a story on the most dangerous intersections that is talked about in the general forum. That isn't ironic, but it's like irony in that there is more to it than just what happened you know.
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No, that
is irony.
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Originally posted by noahfor
An ironic situation give us a sort of feeling, right.
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Irony has a definition that is more specific than that. What you write above is more a description of coincidence. If I remember correctly from high school English, there are three types of irony: situational, dramatic and verbal.
Situational: when something happens that you don't expect (and it usually seems unfair). See
Gift of the Magi.
Dramatic: in literature, when someone says or does something that contrasts with the truth, but that person doesn't know it (and the audience does). Think Romeo killing himself because Juliet is dead (but she really isn't).
Verbal: when your literal meaning and your actual intention are not the same. "How wonderful it was to have rain on the day of our picnic!"