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Grade 8. Types of Irony
Grade 8. Types of Irony
OF
IRONY
Irony is a literary technique
& rhetoric device that has
been used for many years in
speech, art and everyday
life. Although irony has been
used for a long time, there
hasn’t been an exact
definition of irony.
There have been hundreds of
definitions suggested over the years,
however, a general consensus is that: