Anton Gudim, a minimalist illustrator, crafts evocative images that touch on topics like mental health, self-exploration, and ...

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 ...

Adapted from "Irony and Sarcasm" by Roger Kreuz (MIT Press, 2020). Reprinted with permission from MIT Press. In February 1996, Alanis Morissette released the fourth single from “Jagged Little Pill,” ...

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

Everyone knows that Americans don't understand irony. Soon after moving to England from the U.S., I discovered that my country was universally assumed to be an irony-free zone. I was at a dinner party ...

Hypocrisy means contradicting ourselves, being inconsistent, and talking out of both sides of our mouths. But that’s also what irony means. What then distinguishes hypocrisy from irony? A hypocrite ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I was scanning my Twitter feed recently, ...