What is?

[belly_ttt]

1) What is the difference between sarcasm and irony?
2) What is the difference between a cork and stopper?
3) What is the verb for this action:
Some piece of paint falls off from the wall
What verb can we replace for fall off?

4) Where do you get a chance to see a telescope?

[MrPedantic]

Hello Belly,

Would you like to try first?

Best wishes,

MrP

[belly_ttt]

Hi MrPedantic,
Didn't I meet you outside this forum? Your pseudonym is looking familiar
I check the dictionary but since these words are so alike I hardly got anything out

[Raymott]

1) What is the difference between sarcasm and irony?
2) What is the difference between a cork and stopper?
3) What is the verb for this action:
Some piece of paint falls off from the wall
What verb can we replace for fall off?

4) Where do you get a chance to see a telescope?

2. A cork is generally made from the bark of a cork tree. A stopper can be made from anything. A cork generally goes in a wine bottle. Stopper has a much wider use, for example a plug for a drain.
3. Paint flakes off a wall.
4. You can see a telescope at an observatory or at an optical instrument store.
1. would require a 1,500 word essay. Maybe someone else can have a go at that.

[MrPedantic]

Hello Belly,

Oddly enough, your nickname looks familiar too! So it probably was on another forum.

I agree with Raymott that #1 is quite a complex subject. So this is only a very rough attempt to distinguish them:

With irony, we say the opposite to what we mean, but in the expectation that some listeners (but not necessarily all) will understand our true meaning.

Sarcasm is a form of irony: we say the opposite to what we mean, but in a particular emphatic tone (a distinctive "sarcastic" tone), so that all our listeners are in no doubt about our true meaning.

Best wishes,

MrP