Related Clues:

• Sardonic literary tactic
• Satire, perhaps
• Adolph Coors III's allergy to beer, e.g.
• Dramatic device
• Checker's specialty
• Swift quality
• Wry humor
• "Oedipus Rex" literary device
• Stinging surprise
• Novel-plot surprise
• Humor with a twist, perhaps
• Something different
• Screw
• Chubby's dance
• Twisted wit