Watching Sports
Published by James January 30th, 2006 in LifeI stopped watching sports when I moved to San Francisco, and I started wondering why I ever watched them in the first place. But then a friend sent me a message that took me back to another time. It reminded me why you DO watch sports.
It’s all about that moment.
Define Irony.
You just invited me to a super bowl party.
I want that moment with you Joe. You can run, but you can’t run from love.
As you requested……
Definitions of irony on the Web:
* sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; “he used sarcasm to upset his opponent”; “irony is wasted on the stupid”; “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”–Jonathan Swift
* incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; “the irony of Ireland’s copying the nation she most hated”
* a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Irony is a form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words used. Irony involves the perception that things are not what they are said to be or what they seem. Dramatic irony lies in the audience’s deeper perceptions of a coming fate, which contrast with a character’s lack of knowledge about said fate. A common metaphor for using irony is to “have your tongue in cheek”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
* A meaning (often contradictory) concealed behind the apparent meaning of a word or phrase.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/chap10.htm
* A contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. Two kinds of irony are: 1) verbal irony, in which a writer or speaker says one thing and means something entirely different; and 2) dramatic irony in which a reader or audience member perceives something that a character in the story does not
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* A contradiction or incongruity. (Compare ambiguity.) In literature, irony often falls into one of three categories. “Verbal Irony” occurs when words mean in context the opposite of what they say considered by themselves. “Situational Irony” occurs when one event is expected by another oppositional event occurs. …
www2.cumberlandcollege.edu/acad/english/litcritweb/glossary.htm