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Irony. You could look it up. Here, I saved you the trouble: From Wiki --Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance),[1] in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between reality (what is) and appearance (what seems to be). The term may be further defined into several categories, among which are: verbal, dramatic, and situational. Verbal Irony[2] is an incongruity between what is said and what is meant. The discordance of verbal irony may be deliberately created as a means of communication (as in art or rhetoric). Dramatic Irony is an incongruity between what a character in a work of fiction believes to be true and what the audience knows to be true. Dramatic irony communicated the importance of a particular truth by portraying a person who is strikingly unaware of it, emphasizing a perceived truth. Situational Irony is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal, [intended], or expected result."[3] Descriptions or depictions of situational irony, whether in fiction or in non-fiction, serve the communicative function of sharpening or highlighting certain discordant features of reality. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used for emphasis in the assertion of a truth. The ironic form of simile, used in sarcasm, and some forms of litotes emphasize one's meaning by the deliberate use of language which states the opposite of the truth — or drastically and obviously understates a factual connection. Other forms include dialectic and practical, as identified by Thirlwall. I hope this has helped(despite formatting probs).