Irony
I´ron`y
IRONY, rhetoric. A term derived from the Greek, which signifies
dissimulation. It is a refined species of ridicule, which, under the mask of
honest simplicity or ignorance, exposes the faults and errors of others, by
seeming to adopt or defend them.
2. In libels, irony may convey imputations more effectually than direct
assertion, and render the publication libelous. Hob. 215; Hawk. B. 1, c. 73,
s. 4; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 869, Bac. Ab. Libel, A 3.
Atticism,
Janus,
agile wit,
ambiguity,
ambiguousness,
ambivalence,
amphibology,
antinomy,
biformity,
bifurcation,
black humor,
burlesque,
caricature,
causticity,
comedy,
complexity of meaning,
conjugation,
cynicism,
dichotomy,
double entendre,
double meaning,
double reference,
doubleness,
doublethink,
doubling,
dry wit,
dualism,
duality,
duplexity,
duplication,
duplicity,
equivocacy,
equivocality,
equivocalness,
equivocation,
esprit,
farce,
halving,
humor,
innuendo,
invective,
lampoon,
levels of meaning,
multivocality,
nimble wit,
oxymoron,
pairing,
paradox,
parody,
paronomasia,
pleasantry,
polarity,
polysemousness,
polysemy,
pretty wit,
punning,
quick wit,
ready wit,
richness of meaning,
salt,
sarcasm,
satire,
satiric wit,
savor of wit,
self-contradiction,
slapstick,
slapstick humor,
squib,
subtle wit,
travesty,
twinning,
two-facedness,
twoness,
uncertainty,
visual humor,
wit