Allusion and Irony

Allusion

Allusion noun - Passing reference or indirect mention.

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Irony and allusion are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Irony" instead a noun "Allusion".

Nearby Words: allusive, alluded, alluding, allusively

Irony noun - Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

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Allusion and irony are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Allusion" instead a noun "Irony".

Nearby Words: ironic, ironical, ironically, ironist

nice	nice allusion	nice irony
clear	clear allusion	clear irony
obvious	obvious allusion	obvious irony
simple	simple allusion	simple irony
Other adjectives: cool, little, subtle, ironic, humorous, deliberate, possible, apparent, funny, further, intentional, unintentional, historical.

In-universe, Adrian Veight's superhero alter-ego Ozymandias is also an allusion to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem; the double meaning of the sonnet is hinted at and Veight himself is aware of the irony.

Source: Comic Book / Watchmen
Makishima notes the irony of this with an allusion to Gulliver's Travels.

Source: Anime / Psycho-Pass
In the song "Word Crimes", "Weird Al" Yankovic makes a point out of stressing that "Irony is not coincidence", and the accompanying video lends an example to this lyric: Irony is a fire truck on fire, rain at a wedding (an allusion to the Alanis Morissette song) is really just the weather.

Source: Irony