There are three forms of irony in which we are familiar with. There is verbal irony which is when the speaker means the contrast to what they say, and a form that many of us are familiar with could be sarcasm. A novel that we read that has a form of verbal irony would be in Lord of the Flies when Jack says that they need to have rules because they are not savages. This is a form of verbal irony because as the novel progresses Jack no longer follows the rules and acts like a savage who is obsessed with hunting.
Another form of irony that we are familiar with is situational irony. Situational irony is when something opposite and surprising of an action happens then what was initially expected. A story that we read that has a form of situational