When Figures Speak with Irony: Investigating the Role of Rhetorical Figures in Irony Generation with LLMs

Pier Felice Balestrucci; Michael Oliverio; Soda Marem Lo; Luca Anselma; Valerio Basile; Alessandro Mazzei; Viviana Patti

When Figures Speak with Irony: Investigating the Role of Rhetorical Figures in Irony Generation with LLMs

Pier Felice Balestrucci, Michael Oliverio, Soda Marem Lo, Luca Anselma, Valerio Basile, Alessandro Mazzei, Viviana Patti

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[When Figures Speak with Irony: Investigating the Role of Rhetorical Figures in Irony Generation with LLMs](https://aclanthology.org/2025.clicit-1.7/) (Balestrucci et al., CLiC-it 2025)

When Figures Speak with Irony: Investigating the Role of Rhetorical Figures in Irony Generation with LLMs (Balestrucci et al., CLiC-it 2025)

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Pier Felice Balestrucci, Michael Oliverio, Soda Marem Lo, Luca Anselma, Valerio Basile, Alessandro Mazzei, and Viviana Patti. 2025. When Figures Speak with Irony: Investigating the Role of Rhetorical Figures in Irony Generation with LLMs. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025), pages 55–63, Cagliari, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.