Types of Irony

Dramatic irony is an important stylistic device that is commonly found in plays, movies, theaters, and sometimes in poetry. Storytellers use this irony as a useful plot device for creating situations in which the audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts, and their resolutions before the leading characters or actors.

Situational irony definition, irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. See more.

Verbal irony is a trope (or figure of speech) in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express.