In this article, we’ll be looking at oxymorons, tautologies, and malapropisms. We’ll even end with a quiz to help hammer home what you’ve learned.
The thing about telling stories – the reason everyone thinks they’d make a great writer – is that we all do it, and we tend to do it pretty frequently. We don’t, for instance, all communicate by painting. Few of us regularly sing for an audience, most of us haven’t made anyone a film, but
Verbal irony is the use of words to convey something other than their literal meaning. If you accidentally dropped the ice cream cone you just bought and said, “Oh, great!”, you’d be using verbal irony.
Let’s begin with a revelation. Or, I suppose, two revelations. The drag is that only one of them can surprise you. As mentioned, you may be the sort of person who already knows both, but if not, you’re in for a real shock. Ready?
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