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 ...

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 ...

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

Irony sadly, is becoming a lost art form. By definition, irony is a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems the opposite of what you expected. English romance poet ...

From William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “The Book of Mormon,” the power of irony transcends genres and ...

Jump into your DeLorean time machine for a moment, and let's travel back to the year 1996. Tickle Me Elmo is the hot Christmas item people are fighting over. Oprah just announced her first Oprah's ...