&gt; One of the few lessons to stick with me from high school English was during the lesson on irony, when a student asked &quot;Is sarcasm the same thing as irony?&quot; and the teacher thought about it for a moment, before responding that, yes, it is, kind of, but it&#x27;s the lowest form of irony.<p>Properly speaking, sarcasm <i>often uses</i> verbal irony, but sarcasm does not necessarily involve irony. Though maybe that definition is changing; its not that uncommon to see &quot;sarcasm&quot; used as if it were equivalent to verbal irony.