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 ...

For those of you unfamiliar with the story behind the movie, The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio playing the role of real-life criminal Jordan Belfort. In short, the movie portrays the ...

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

Irony is the principle by which the meaning of words is affected and often radically altered according to where, when, in what context, and by whom they are said. It’s pretty basic to all human ...

As the great British comic, Ricky Gervais once implied, England and America may not so much be divided by a common tongue, but by their distinctive use (and in the case of the Brits, their abuse) of ...