SELF-IRONY  

IRONIA in discourse about oneself.

Hypernym
  • IRONIAHISTRIONIC way of expressing something by playfully creating an appearance of claiming its opposite, typically assuming one's playfulness to be understood by the intended audience. The use of words to express something diametrically different from their meaning, or in a histrionically mediated sense. test
    • HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
    Rhetorical device locations: 2
    • 論語 「其然? 豈其然乎
    • 論語 「甚矣吾衰也!