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Message: <blockquote data-quote="incognito" data-source="post: 446999" data-attributes="member: 7008">Irony: let's talk turkeyThere is actually quite a bit of debate, even amongst those of the enlish literature bent about the proper use of Irony.This is becasue  there is more than one type of Irony.  There are 4, In my literary opinion:Socratic Irony: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning Dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.Verbal Irony: The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.Irony of situation: When there is a discrepency between the expected result and actual resultsUsually, irony is also a form of humor because it can juxtapose two opposite ideas in a clever or unexpected manner. Irony is a difficult trope because a simple expression can be made ironic simply by changing the inflection of your voice. That being said, tarchon's situation is a little of Dramatic Irony, and Irony of situation, and is a very fine example:  This does not mean some of Tuerny's exmaples were invalid although we all can agree some were contrived, or weak.Especially the Set of statues: and here is why.  See our boy trarchon assumed that the creature statues all pertified each other.  That may not be the cse, although both the PC's and the players may assume it is - creating a paranoid situation when the truth is something else entirely.Alternately, you have the more obvious irony that all these creatures met their end in the same manner they so brusquely dole out to others.  Like it would be IRONIC if a dark ages exceutioner was himself beheaded - see the differrence btwn that and simple swordsmen? But I guess that's enough on this topic, let's stay focused</blockquote>

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