an English question

Seems like you've got a fairly good definition of it and it is such a hard phrase to define, but I'll try to define it in a different way and hopefully you'll get one of the two. ^_^ Irony, basically, is when something unexpected happens. For example, in Romeo and Juliet (assuming you've read Shakespeare's play) it is ironic that they both die in the end. The reader thought that Juliet would wake up and they would live happily ever after and it was not expected that Romeo would find her like that and kill himself and them Juliet do the same. A more basic example would be if I were to say that I was an honest person and then I turned around and stole something. Because I said I was honest, you would expect that I was, but me stealing something is ironic because it's the complete opposite of what you expected. I hope that helped at least a little. So, in other words, an ironic twist means that it happened in an unexpected way, or in a way that the reader (viewer? not sure whether those are books or movies) did not think it would happen. :) If you're still confused, feel free to message me and I'll try to clarify the best I can.