A poem is often made complicated and more interesting by another kind of irony:
1. Verbal Irony
2. Situational Irony
3. Dramatic Irony
1. Verbal irony:
Verbal irony occurs whenever words say one thing but when something else, usually the opposite. The word ‘love' means 'hate' here.
' I just love to stay home and do my hair
on a Saturday night.’
If the verbal irony in conspicuously bitter, heavy - handed, and mocking, it is ‘sarcasm'. The sarcasm, if that statement was spoken, would be underscored by the speaker’s tone of voice.
2. Situational Irony:
Situation irony is an incongruity between what is expected or intended and what actually occurs.
3. Dramatic Irony:
Dramatic irony, like verbal irony, contains an element of contrast, but it usually refers to a situation in a place where in a correct whose knowledge is limited says, does, or encounter something of great significance than he or she knows. We, the spectators, realise the meaning of this speech or action,for playwright has offered a superior knowledge.
