Verbal Irony is a literary device in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. It if often used as humor, and the author can use it to contrast a certain situation. An example of verbal irony is when Higgins asks Doolittle why he arrived at his household if not for money and Doolittle replies, "Well, what would a man come for? Be human, Governor." This is verbal irony, because he is saying that money is not what he came to Higgins's house for, when in reality it was the only thing he's after,