Grammar ep: 26 Irony

 Ah, Irony is a very complicated part of the English language, the rough definition is: "The difference between the expected and result".

For example, Dramatic Irony is when there is an unevenly distributed amount of awareness on the subject, for example:

Let's take a toddler, who greatly dislikes Brussels sprouts (mind you I the writer personally like Brussels sprouts), but he's never seen any, as he has only heard about it from his friends and they say it tastes horrible (I the writer says it tastes great this kid just hate veggies for some reason).
But his parents have given him Brussels sprouts as a side dish for dinner, so he doesn't know that he is currently eating Brussels sprouts, even though he has said multiple times he dislikes them.
Thus this is called Dramatic Irony.

The second form of Irony is Situational Irony, for example:
Let's say there's a husband and wife, and they want to buy something very nice for each other, so since they both don't have much money to buy extravagant gifts, they both sell something to make some extra cash to buy said gift for their spouse, the wife sell her favourite T-shirt and buys the husband a new strap for his watch.
The husband went to the shop and sold his watch to buy his wife a new patch for a small hole in his wife's favourite shirt.
After they give their gift, they notice that both gifts are practically useless, as the patch is only for the shirt with a hole, and the watch strap is only useful on a watch.
This is situational Irony. 

The third kind of Irony is verbal Irony, for example:

Let's take sarcasm as an example, let's say I lost my toy truck and you ask me how I am after losing my truck if I wanted to respond with sarcasm I would say "Oh yeah, I am alright, never better". If I wasn't being sarcastic I would say: "I feel terrible and deeply saddened since I lost my toy truck.

Now let's say my foot got crushed by a heavy stone, if you wanted to make it into a pun you would say: "I really feel flat today".