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	Irony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irony, from the Greek ειρων (self-deprecator), is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is generally understood (either at the time, or in the later context of history).
		The expression “irony of fate” stems from the notion that the gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals, with deliberate ironic intent.
		A typical use of irony of fate occurs in the climax of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irony (4313 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Irony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Irony is a form of utterance that postulates a double audience, consisting of one party that hearing shall hear and shall not understand, and another party that, when more is meant than meets the ear, is aware, both of that 'more' and of the outsider's incomprehension.
		Irony is, therefore, a matter of perceived and real attitude or values of the speaker, rather than a difference between the denotative meanings of the words a speaker uses.
		The word "irony" is frequently used figuratively, especially in such phrases as "the irony of fate," of an issue or result that seems to contradict normal expectations derived from the previous state or condition.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/concepts/irony (1522 words)

	Irony - LoveToKnow 1911
		The word is frequently used figuratively, especially in such phrases as "the irony of fate," of an issue or result that seems to contradict the previous state or condition.
		Its use is particularly characteristic of the drama of ancient Greece, owing to the familiarity of the spectators with the legends on which so many of the plays were based.
		It may take several forms; the character speaking may be con scious of the irony of his words while the rest of the actors may not, or he may be unconscious and the actors share the knowledge with the spectators, or the spectators may alone realize irony.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Irony (255 words)

	Irony of Fate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irony of Fate (original title: Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!, in transcription: Ironiya Sudby ili s Lekhkim Parom) is a Soviet comedy-drama directed by Eldar Ryazanov based on the script by Emil Braginsky and Ryazanov filmed in 1975 at Mosfilm.
		The term "Irony of Fate" relates to the analogy of gods playing with the mortals.
		The second title that adds with an "or", "S lyokhkim parom!" (literally something like "I congratulate you for the light steam") is an idiomatical phrase to compliment somebody who has just come out of the shower, the banya, or the bathtub ("lyokhkij par" translates to "light steam").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irony_of_Fate (586 words)

	Jungian Novel Writing - Irony
		Irony demands more of the reader, that he have a certain wisdom that enables him to recognize a sort of subtext that carries the meaning rather than the literal words.
		This is known as "cosmic irony" or "irony of fate", which is sort of a "conspiracy of the elements" to produce a foreordained result.
		Irony is a sort of twist in logic and, as in Oedipus' case, is an underlying plot structure.
	greek-myth.com /Novel_Writing/irony.htm (3023 words)

	White, 'Introduction: Irony and Clerisy' - Irony and Clerisy - Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
		Irony's provenance as a rhetorical term dates back to antiquity, but its usage receives a new birth through the theorizing of Friedrich Schlegel, emerging in his writing as something rather different than the "merely" rhetorical strategy through which one says one thing and means another.
		Irony is the impossibility of arriving at the end of this process—i.e.
		Nevertheless, for most contemporary readers, irony names an interruption of the authority laid claim to by secular and not so secular clerics whose vocation is to guarantee the continuity of culture in the face of the most enormous (or, as one might also translate ungeheuerste, the most monstrous) of revolutions.
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/irony/white/ironyintro.html (2533 words)

	Notes on some types of irony
		In general, irony is the use of language to express both a surface meaning and a different underlying meaning.
		This is the common classification for irony that is used simply to express oneself, usually to a single audience, though the term could be correctly applied more broadly (e.g., to Socratic irony, which is a rhetorical means to an end).
		Rhetorical irony can be quite sophisticated (e.g., a novel or film might contain a subtle, underlying meaning that only some in the audience detect), but it is most common in its simplest forms in ordinary conversations.
	faculty.washington.edu /ewebb/Rome/Irony.html (771 words)

	Irony
		The word irony is frequently used figuratively, especially in such phrases as "the irony of fate," of an issue or result that seems to contradict the previous state or condition.
		It may take several forms; the character speaking may be conscious of the irony of his words while the rest of the actors may not, or he may be unconscious and the actors share the knowledge with the spectators, or the spectators may alone realize irony.
		Various analyses have been made of the lyrics of the song to attempt to determine whether they are or are not ironic, generally for the purposes of humour or simple mockery[?] of Morissette.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ir/Ironic.html (372 words)

	Irony in Modern American Religion
		The irony of ironists, observed and dissected by ironologists, literary irony is “a figure of speech,” defined as one “in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt.”
		The knowledge of [irony] depends upon an observer who is not so hostile to the victim of irony as to deny the element of virtue which must constitute a part of the ironic situation; nor yet so sympathetic as to discount the weakness, the vanity and pretension which constitutes another element.
		As a consequence, Hayden White's contention that “irony tends to dissolve all belief in the possibility of positive political actions” because it a tends to a view of “the essential folly or absurdity of the human condition” (434) can be countered.
	www.illuminos.com /mem/selectPapers/ironyFigLit.html (3567 words)

	Irony and Ignorance
		The description of a situation as the irony of Fate is thus a subjective attempt to explain the inexplicable or unexpected.
		In rhetoric, irony is simply that figure of speech in which the speaker's intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used.
		IRONY: a method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense.
	www.geocities.com /eirig (14321 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Irony of Fate (The).
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Irony of Fate (The).
		A strange fatality which has brought about something quite the reverse of what might have been expected.
		“By the irony of fate the Ten Hours’ Bill was carried in the very session when Lord Ashley, having changed his views on the Corn Laws, felt it his duty to resign his seat in Parliament.”—The Leisure Hour, 1887.
	www.bartleby.com /81/8963.html (99 words)

	Irony and relevance: A reply to Drs Seto, Hamamoto and Yamanashi
		The notion of echo we used in analysing irony is a technical one; it is deliberately broad, and goes beyond what would generally be understood by the ordinary-language word 'echo'.
		Such cases should be an embarrassment for classical and Gricean approaches to irony: instead of a nice 'meaning reversal', the intended meaning seems to be somewhere up in the air, fluttering halfway between the literal and the standardly ironical.
		The circumstances should be such that the mother could relevantly say (18) without irony: that is, the room should be clean, and she should be able to praise her child sincerely.
	www.dan.sperber.com /Irony98.htm (3458 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Irony" by Norman D. Knox
		Also, two aspects of irony were implied by this definition: "to blame by praise" is satiric irony; "to praise by blame is comic irony, for undesirable characteristics attributed to a sympathetic victim draw the audience’s attention to his real virtues.
		Apart from Socrates, the rhetoricians thought of irony, in Quintilian’s terms, as either "trope," a brief figure of speech embedded in a straightforward context, or "schema," an entire speech or case presented in language and a tone of voice that conflict with the true situation.
		The comic irony of praise through blame, which had also originated in Socratic self-depreciation, remained a minor figure of speech until the early eighteenth century, when in England, at least, Swift, Pope, and their friends recognized it as a delightful mode in which to write letters and converse.
	www.autodidactproject.org /other/ironydhi.html (4832 words)

	irony — FactMonster.com
		The user of irony assumes that his reader or listener understands the concealed meaning of his statement.
		Perhaps the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she means.
		Dramatic irony occurs in a play when the audience knows facts of which the characters in the play are ignorant.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0825510.html (240 words)

	Free Essay Irony in Black Boy
		Five examples of irony in the novel Black Boy are; situational irony, romantic irony, irony of fate, dramatic irony, and verbal irony.
		Romantic Irony is when you treat something serious and you make light of it such as this quote “but don’t you wanna save your soul” “Have you tried to feel God?”.
		Irony Of Fate is when a person expectation is determined by chance, fate, or the gods.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=28322 (760 words)

	Urban Dictionary: Irony
		Socratic irony - When someone pretends to be naive about a certain subject, and uses his questions about it to point out a flaw in the established belief.
		Sarcasm - Understatement, mocking overstatement, or heavy-handed irony (stating the flat opposite of the truth) where both parties are aware of the difference between what's said and what's actually happening.
		Irony of Fate - The concept that the Gods, Fates, etc. are toying with humans for amusement by using irony.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Irony (560 words)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Irony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although the word irony is often used very broadly in common speech ("He expected to make a whole load of money, but ironically he lost it all"), it's best to use it precisely in English papers.
		In verbal irony (sometimes called rhetorical irony), probably the most straightforward kind of irony, the speaker says something different from what he or she really believes.
		Cosmic irony comes closest to the common usage: it seems that God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/irony.html (259 words)

	Irony within Oedipus Rex -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		The irony inherent in Teiresias’ parting shot at Oedipus is well known by the audience: Oedipus did kill his father and marry his mother.
		The basic theme of Oedipus Rex is the irony of fate: no mortal man, no matter how powerful and wealthy, can be pronounced happy until he is dead; for no man, however wise, knows what tomorrow will bring.
		The use of irony in a play allows playwrights to make audiences want to see how the events occurring mentally affect the main character, even if they already are aware of the story, as shown in Oedipus Rex.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/233 (1094 words)

	Terms for Discussing Fiction
		A type of irony emphasizing that human beings are enmeshed in forces beyond their comprehension and control.
		Situational irony in which a character perceives his or her plight in a limited way while the audience and one or more other characters understand it entirely.
		Situational irony that is connected to a pessimistic or fatalistic view of life.
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl102/quiz/ficquiz.htm (565 words)

	Fate, Karma and Irony in a Small World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I know there are a lot of people who don't believe in fate -- who haven't experienced karma, who shrug off irony ---but I'm not one of them.
		I believe all play a significant role in at least my life in both positive and negative ways, but it's strange for me to experience all three at once.
		You may or may not choose to think of what happened on the night of September 30th as fate, karma, or ironybut it might make some skeptics wonder...
	www.tonyadesigns.com /fate.html (1032 words)

	OPED IRONY OF FATE » Netscape.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Politics – This is an irony of fate.
		Orhan Pamuk, who was tried for saying "30,000 Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands," was awarded the Nobel literature prize on the same day the Armenian genocide bill was passed by the French parliament.
		Politics – With all the problems President Bush and the Republicans face, this is as good a time as any to focus on one of their biggest success stories - the American economy.
	politics.netscape.com /story/2006/10/13/oped-irony-of-fate (148 words)

	IRONY OF FATE
		"By the irony of fate the Ten Hours' Bill was carried in the very session when Lord Ashley, having changed his views on the Corn Laws, felt it his duty to resign his seat in Parliament." - The Leisure Hour, 1887.
		Translations for "IRONY OF FATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
		kaderin cilvesi (manifestation of fate, quirk of fate).
	www.websters-dictionary-online.org /definition/english/Ir/Irony+of+Fate.html (267 words)

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		The Irony of Fate gives everyone a warm feeling when watched.
		In my opinion* he has no right to be there in the first place, so the least he could do is respect Nadya's wishes.
		Fate or no fate, I would not have loved or respected someone anymore if they had stayed and harassed me about love, when I had just ended a relationship with a great man.
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	.::Love Like Blood : An Irony Of Fate : 1992 : Rebel Records / SPV Chronique www.obskure.com:::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Le premier des constats s’impose naturellement : avec "An Irony Of Fate", Yorck Eysel est devenu un chanteur de caractère, dépassant les affres gutturaux du premier opus pour s’adonner à des exercices plus maîtrisés, tant dans le vibrato que la gestion de la puissance ("Kiss and tell").
		Car sur "An Irony Of Fate", Wheeler réussit à coupler avec magnificence et virtuosité des guitares claires très coulées dans des armatures plus soniques, assez flatteuses et très puissantes.
		L’électricité domine ainsi le propos de "An Irony Of Fate", mais les guitares électro-acoustiques imprègnent tellement l’arrière-plan qu’elles donnent au disque une touche précieuse et unique ("Kiss and tell", entre autres, bénéficiera grandement de cet apport acoustique).
	www.obskure.com /chroniques/love-like-blood-an-irony-of-fate.htm (507 words)

	irony - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Irony : Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples [home, info]
		Phrases that include irony: dramatic irony, socratic irony, irony of fate, concept of irony, irony is a dead scene, more...
		Words similar to irony: satire, ironies, sarcasm, caustic remark, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=irony (370 words)

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	The Dead Parrot Society: Hold the irony
		When the CEO of McDonald's dies of a heart attack, it's not irony no matter how many people call it that.
		(Although I do fall into the camp that believes the ultimate irony of Morissette's song is that it is irony-free.
		How is this not analogous to the irony of fate example where beethoven loses his hearing?
	www.deadparrots.net /archives/language/0404hold_the_irony.html (219 words)

	Irony of Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The continuity is almost exactly the same up until the team reaches Nibelheim for the first time, and after that the plot is quite different.
		The story is now complete at 62 chapters and an epilogue, and will have its story continued in an Interlude, Battlegrounds, and then many other, smaller fan fics in the After The Irony section of the site.
		The main characters are Sephiroth, Aeris, and Vincent, with some Cloud and Tifa as well.
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