Irony is a part of everyday life whether we realize it or not.  No matter who you are in life, you pretty much use irony when speaking at least once throughout your day.  However, there are three different types of irony. There is, verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony. In literature and poetry, situational irony is the most common form of irony found in the text.  Situational irony is described as an incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens.  An example of this would be in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” with the main character.  His name is “Fortunato” so we would expect him to be very lucky and fortunate, however as we know he is very unlucky and gets thrown in jail.  Next, we have verbal irony, which is defined as words that describe something contrary to truth or when someone says the opposite of what they feel or mean. An everyday example of this would be any type of sarcasm, where you mean the opposite of what you say. Finally, there is dramatic irony, which is defined as any thing that the audience knows that the characters in the play or story do not know.  This would be like in Oedipus where we know that Oedipus’ father was Laios, but the characters in the story do not understand or know this fact.  All in all, there are many forms of irony and they can be very easy to confuse with each other.