Irony

Saying one thing while meaning another, often the opposite. The true meaning is left to whoever reads or hears.

In The Death of Ivan Ilyich

the very fact of a close acquaintance's death aroused in everyone who learned of it, as always, a feeling of joy that it was he who had died, and not I.

The narrator calls "joy" what the news of the death arouses, when one would expect grief. The unexpected word, reinforced by "as always," exposes the coldness of the colleagues without his having to accuse them.

Chapters I to III: The Wake and Life, the narrator

The joys of service were joys of self-regard; social joys were joys of vanity; but Ivan Ilyich's true joys were the joys of the game of vint.

Chapters I to III: The Wake and Life, the narrator