Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there's an or discordance between what a speaker or a writer says and what he or she means, or is generally understood. In modern usage it can also refer to particularly striking examples of incongruities observed in everyday life between what was intended or said and what actually happened. There is some argument about what is or isn't ironic, but all the different senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between wh… (More on Irony)