What is irony with examples?

Answer 1

Irony-The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.

Woman: I started riding these trains in the forties. Those days a man would give up his seat for a woman. Now we're liberated and we have to stand.

Elaine: It's ironic.

Woman: What's ironic?

Elaine: This, that we've come all this way, we have made all this progress, but you know we've lost the little things, the niceties.

Woman: No, I mean what does ironic mean?

Elaine: Oh.

("The Subway," Seinfeld, Jan. 8 1992)