Irony is one of the concepts many students struggle with. Similar to sarcasm (without the tone of voice to help you), irony in article writing involves saying something while meaning the opposite. The writer has to give enough clues to ensure that readers who are paying keen attention will pick up on the fact that the writer doesn't mean what they are saying but readers need all sorts of pragmatic understanding to pick up on these clues and if you, as a reader, haven't had much practice, you can easily miss them.
I've found a really good example of an ironic article here. What are the clues that this is irony, not a really offensive diatribe?They are all completely obvious, clearly...
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