A lesson in irony

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When I first started tutoring and lecturing the English language and literature, an early problem for this novice educator was to get university and college students, many of them with just a functional grasp of the language, to understand “irony” and the varied manifestations of it in writing and in literature, that what is said may not be what is meant or what will happen or indicate true motives, that the writer or character may be aware of or ignorant of irony.It’s like lying? No. It’s being a hypocrite? No, it’s not hypocrisy. It’s sarcasm. Yes, in words, they may be rooted in the same emotion, but sarcasm is expressed with a bitter, caustic tone, a blunt weapon to express outrage, whereas irony uses wit to say one thing while suggesting another, eliciting a laugh to make its point.How to know when irony is at play? Are there verbal signposts? Nope, it’s just a sense that…