antiphrasis
Noun
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The use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) (synset 107115916)
is a type of: rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)is a part of: irony - a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
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