Entertainment / Literature / Situational Irony: Another term for universal irony. See discussion under irony.
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Entertainment / Literature / Cosmic Irony: Another term for situational irony--especially situational irony connected to a fatalistic or pessimistic view of life. See discussion under irony, below. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Irony: Cicero referred to irony as 'saying one thing and meaning another.' Irony comes in many forms. Verbal irony (also called sarcasm) is a trope in which a speaker makes a statement in which its actual me MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Socratic Irony: Adapting a form of ironic false modesty in which a speaker claims ignorance regarding a question or philosophical problem. The speaker then turns to another 'authority' and raises the question humbly, MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Situational Irony: Another term for universal irony. See discussion under irony. MORE
Business / Human Resources (HR) / Situational Leadership: A management theory stating that different situations call for different leadership styles and that essentially there is no one best way to lead. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Contrapassio: (counter-suffering) A thematic principle involving situational irony in which a punishment's nature corresponds exactly to the nature of a crime. Much of Dante's Inferno revolves around elaborate cont MORE