Irony is one of those things you kind of know when you see or hear it on screen, but it's much harder to define and put into layman's terms.

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

A new robot was programmed to have a sense of irony, allowing it to approach conversations with all the tact of a surly teenager. The idea was to make a robot that better mirrors how people talk in ...

We don't always recognize irony right away. An interdisciplinary research team at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main found that irony is primarily signaled by ...

Are you or have you ever considered becoming a hipster? You better become acquainted with the already-outdated moniker’s attendant signifier first: Irony. You have to eat it. You have to breathe it.

Before Sept. 11 people laughed at Bill Clinton when he asked what the definition of ‘is’ is and it was the coolly detached age of irony. Now people ask what the definition of irony is and it is just ...

If irony abounds, but no one notices, does that mean irony is dead? Or does it mean we’re living in the most ironic of all possible worlds? That’s the question that comes to mind watching the ...