20 Examples of Irony

Irony

The irony is basically the fiction of saying something to imply otherwise, dSo it is only valid in quite specific communicative situations, since it carries the risk of not being decoded as such.

The etymology of the word "irony" is found in the Greek language and closely associated with the art of oratory and rhetoric. Socrates was one of the introducers of this resource in the framework of the debates of that time, where such important questions for life in society were discussed for the first time in the West. In particular, he sought to convince the sophists by his method of teaching by question.

Even so, we are in permanent contact with this resource and we have it perfectly incorporated into our expressive competence, even young children incorporate ironic speaking of their greatest ways, and employ them very well.

Related to irony is another figure of language: the sarcasm, which is the manifestation of a mockery by means of irony: instead of qualifying someone negatively, it is rate positively for him and everyone else to consider this to be obviously criticism covert.

Characteristics of irony

Examples of irony

Here is a list of examples of expressions that can be ironic in certain situations, or ironic situations:

1. Good thing I followed your advice! (in the form of reproach, when something goes wrong)
2. Are you not tired of studying? (a mother to a young man who does not study anything)
3. I really value your comment (when someone says something that is not at all relevant)
4. Of course I love being here working from 8 to 22! (to a co-worker)
5. I spent a beautiful afternoon, crying alone in my room (to a friend, after a fight with the boyfriend)
6. How much longer will it take? (when someone is taking a long time to do something simple, as a reproach)
7. How beautiful is your sister! (the girl is not pretty)
8. Right, you are very intelligent, while I am a fool (expresses indignation in the face of an underestimation of the other)
9. I didn't expect you so early (when someone arrives much later than agreed)
10. How was your visit to your grandmother? (when someone forgets to keep a promise, in this case, go visit their grandmother)
11. Thanks for the fine, it is just what I needed (to a policeman who fines us for bad parking).
12. This party was a success (after a party that hardly anyone came to)
13. Mathematics was the subject that cost me the most, today I study engineering
14. Before they hated each other, now they are best friends
15. Be careful, do not take off your coat because they announce snowfall (on a very hot day)
16. How happy that she makes me have to save what my children leave behind! (a mother)
17. You don't know how much fun we had on that car trip: there were traffic jams everywhere, she punctured her rubber, and it was pouring down on her! (after a complicated trip)
18. She grew up in cotton wool and now has to work, at 65.
19. I have never eaten a barbecue so ready (the meat was burned).
20. I kept sleeping, your room tidies itself up (a mother to her teenage daughter)

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