Sarcasm is the sneering, sly, jesting, or mocking of a person, situation or thing. It is strongly associated with irony, with some definitions classifying it as a type of verbal irony intended to insult or woundhttp://home.cfl.rr.com/eghsap/apterms.htmlhttp://london.sonoma.edu/Essays/glossary.htmlhttp://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/terms.htmhttp://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/newsat/chapter12section2.rhtmlhttp://www.pearsoned.ca/text/flachmann4/gloss_iframe.htmlhttp://station05.qc.ca/csrs/bouscol/anglais/book_report/glossary3.htmlhttp://www.answers.com/topic/sarcasm ? stating the opposite of the intended meaning, e.g. using "that's fantastic" to mean "that's awful". It is used mostly in a humorous manner, but can express annoyance or anger.http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/counselling/pages/problems/anger.html Fyodor Dostoyevsky defined sarcasm as

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