Assignment: Freewrite on the irony in your every day life. Then polish it up and write a paragraph about the irony you encounter. Isn't That Ironic? In general, a discrepancy between appearances and reality is irony. Irony is encountered thoughout our daily activies and comes in many forms; verbal, situational, and cosmic. Verbal irony is the most familiar kind, this occurs when we understand that the speaker's meaning is far from the usual meaning. For …showed first 75 words of 415 total…

…showed last 75 words of 415 total…in which a wife loses a diamond necklace that was lended to her, she and her husband work ten years to pay back the money they lended to buy a new necklace, only to discover the original necklace was fake. In this story it is evident that a supernatual being got invovled to punish the wife for her greed. Ironies are easy to find in our daily activties; whether in statement, situation, or unexpected event.