Kejeli

Kejeli (kutoka neno la Kiarabu; pia: kinaya; kwa Kiingereza: irony, kutoka Kigiriki cha Kale εἰρωνεία, eirōneía, yaani 'ujinga wa makusudi') ni namna ya kusema au kutenda kwa utani na dharau kinyume cha ukweli lakini kwa lengo la kuwasilisha ukweli. 

Marejeo

Bogel, Fredric V. "Irony, Inference, and Critical Understanding." Yale Review, 503–19.
Booth, Wayne C. A Rhetoric of Irony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
Bryant, G. A., & Fox Tree, J. E. (2002). Recognizing verbal irony in spontaneous speech. Metaphor and Symbol, 17, 99–115.
Colebrook, Claire. Irony. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
Gibbs, R. W. (2000). Irony in talk among friends. Metaphor and Symbol, 15, 5–27.
Hutcheon, Linda. Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony. London: Routledge, 1994.
Kierkegaard, Søren. On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates. 1841; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Lavandier, Yves. Writing Drama, pages 263–315.
Lee, C. J., & Katz, A. N. (1998). The differential role of ridicule in sarcasm and irony. Metaphor and Symbol, 13, 1–15.
Leggitt, J., & Gibbs, R. W. (2000). Emotional reactions to verbal irony. Discourse Processes, 29(1), 1–24.
Muecke, D. C. The Compass of Irony. London: Methuen, 1969.
Star, William T. "Irony and Satire: A Bibliography." Irony and Satire in French Literature. Ed. University of South Carolina Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1987. 183–209.

Viungo vya nje

"The final irony"—a Guardian article about irony, use and misuse of the term
Article on the etymology of Irony
"Irony", by Norman D. Knox, in Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973)
"Sardonicus"—a web-resource that provides access to similes, ironic and otherwise, harvested from the web.
Excerpt on dramatic irony from Yves Lavandier's Writing Drama Writing Drama has a 52-page chapter on dramatic irony (with insights on the three phases (installation-exploitation-resolution), surprise, mystery, suspense, diffuse dramatic irony, etc.)
"American Irony"  compared with British irony, quoting Stephen Fry
American and British irony compared by Simon Pegg
Modern example of ironic writing
Irony definition by Baldrick (BlackAdder)