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Thank you We sneak Speak irony leishman What is irony

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The irony is not just when something is weird It's

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not rain on your wedding day Rain on your wedding

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day is really sad but unless you're in a place

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where you never expected it to ray and this was

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like the one day that it rained it's not totally

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Eireann So basically irony is when thie expected event doesn't

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match up with what actually happened So you can have

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situational irony which is when you would expect something to

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happen based on like where you are or what you're

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doing And the opposite thing happens Shmoop you can have

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verbal irony which is when you say one thing and

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you kind of mean another sarcasm is the most common

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form of verbal irony and we see a lot of

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it in this book Teenagers use lots of irony because

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it's easy to say like oh yeah that's cool when

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you actually mean that's like the dumbest thing i've ever

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seen How does melinda make use of irony in the

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novel I think melinda's use of irony really just shows

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us that everything is not as it seems on dh

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that's important to understanding the linda's character like the way

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the world sees her does not mean drop with who

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she actually is And what's happened to her And so

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her section titles or very ironic You know when she's

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talking about things that happened at her school she's is

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the title our fearless leader clearly meaning the opposite it's

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Just a constant reminder that she lives in a world

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with a kind of double reality and that we always

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have to be careful about what we believe and what

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we don't believe What is irony How does melinda make 00:01:59.047 --> [endTime] use of irony in the novel

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