CNN’s Dana Bash thought there was a “more than a little bit of irony” that Melania Trump would give a speech about the importance of setting a positive example for children, given her husband’s ...

The Republican primary race is already heating up, made up of two lanes of activity. The first lane, occupied by those who could actually win the nomination, is home to just two candidates: former ...

State of the Union and other presidential addresses have been more show biz, less serious discourse for decades. Two performances standing out in President Donald Trump’s latest speech to a joint ...

Wired is hugely dismissive of a Supreme Court case on social media and freedom of speech. In the same article, Wired also teaches us why free speech on social media is so vitally important. Which is, ...

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 ...

A video showing a member of the Proud Boys and apparent vaccine skeptic explaining the concept of free speech has been hailed as the "definition of irony" on social media. Freedom of speech is ...

While dramatic irony entails a contrast between what an audience knows and what characters know, verbal irony is a contrast between words and their meaning, and situational irony is a contrast between ...

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