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Linguistic irony is a duality of meaning, now the classic form of irony.

Structural irony is a quality that is built into texts.

Romantic irony, in which writers conspire with readers to share the double vision of what is happening in the plot of a novel, film.

Stylistic devices based on the interaction of the pri­mary and the derivative (secondary) meanings of one and the same word are very popular in English fiction, espe­cially in that of the XIX century: the highly developed system of English polysemy and homonymy is one of the main factors explaining this fact

There are special stylistic devices which make a word materialize two distinct dictionary meaning. They are z e u g m a and the pun.

Zeugma. Simultaneously realization within the same short context of two meanings of a polysemantic word is called zeugma. The semantic relation of meanings of a word on the one hand literal, and on the other, transferred. For example:
"It is not linen you are wearing out but human creature's life!"

Here the verb "to wear out" is used in its direct mea­ning (to wear out linen) and in the figurative meaning (to wear out one's life) simultaneously.

The stylistic device is particularly favored in Eng­lish emotive prose and poetry.