What is irony?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. A contrast between what is said or expected and what actually happens
- Step 1: Verbal, situational and dramatic irony all rely on a gap between expectation and reality.
Answer
A contrast between what is said or expected and what actually happens.
Why not the others: A comparison between two things using the words like or as, A repeated opening word in successive lines of a poem and A story with a hidden moral lesson at its end don't fit.
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