Rhetorical trope: the replacement of an expression that is meant by its opposite. Characteristic of ironical speech are ambiguous structures or structures that contain contradictory expressions, which implicitly point to the opposite by polysemy,...

Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says and what is generally understood (either at the time, or in the later context of history). Irony may also arise from a discordance...

H-1B Visas: The U.S. is again showing how well it can seal the border against skilled, law-abiding workers who are crucial to its economic future."It's just nuts," says Carl Shusterman, an immigration attorney quoted in the Los Angeles Times. And we couldn't agree more. Shusterman...

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“How long will it take for him to descend into self-parody?” Stanley Bing asks 10 pages into his epically meaningless 300-page meditation on the art of corporate bullshitting. The answer is: Not very long. If Mr. Bing could back off a bit from his hideous...

“How long will it take for him to descend into self-parody?” Stanley Bing asks 10 pages into his epically meaningless 300-page meditation on the art of corporate bullshitting. The answer is: Not very long. If Mr. Bing could back off a bit from his hideous...

An overview of the three different types of irony used in writing: verbal, situational, and dramatic. All three types of irony are vital in injecting sarcasm, guilty feelings, horror, tension, tragedy, and humor to situations.