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 ...

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

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.

Since I started contributing to Psychology Today three years ago, I’ve been periodically exploring how laughter and humor are related to other terms often associated with them. They include concepts ...

Alanis Morissette was about as big as any artist has ever been in the ’90s. Her cutting lyricism earned her many ears, thanks to the era’s affinity for punchy realism. She released one of her ...

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 ...

Here’s the trouble with life: We often face choices in which each of the available options could save or screw us, tough-judgment-call situations in which it’s not obvious whether to go with plan A or ...