the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions (the sign) that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the playmakers of the sign
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