antiphrasis

She is employing a rhetorical strategy by writing against the grain of her meaning, also known as antiphrasis.

Understanding tropes such as irony and antiphrasis will also be beneficial for interpretation.

Hutcheon rejects the traditional definition of irony as antiphrasis, or saying the opposite of what one means.

Antiphrasis: Change based on a contrastive aspect of the concepts, e.g., perfect lady in the sense of "prostitute".

In the village of Aci Trezza in the Province of Catania lives the Toscano family, who, although extremely hardworking, has been nicknamed (for antiphrasis) the Malavoglia (The Reluctant Ones).