1. Verbal irony: A contrast between what is literally said and what is actually meant. 2 Dramatic irony: The states affairs know to the reader(or audience) is the of reverse of what its participants suppose it to be 3 situational irony A set of circumstances turn out to the reverse of what is expected or is appropriate. (Pickering& Hoeper, 1997) Briefly speaking, irony something opposite of what it meant Its deference aon the way thinos seem to be and the way they actually are.