All 7 Uses of
irony
in
The Girl Who Played with Fire
- His tone was not unfriendly or ironical.†
Part Pro.
- For Salander it was an irony of fate that she and her sister were so dramatically dissimilar.
Part 2 *irony = when what happens is very different than what might be expected
- It had a surprisingly ironic title—"From Russia with Love"—an homage, of course, to Ian Fleming's classic novel.†
Part 2
- Part of that work, ironically, had been to find out what had happened to Harriet, his niece.†
Part 2
- It's ironic.
Part 3ironic = when what happens is very different than what might be expected; or when things are together that seem like they don't belong together
- What irony.†
Part 4
- The choice of name may not have been intended to make fun of him personally; it was more likely some private ironic reflection of Salander's—but where else should Kalle Blomkvist, nicknamed for an Astrid Lindgren character, look for her than at Pippi Longstocking's Villa Villekulla?†
Part 4