he yelled out with a warm smile and ... the arched brow of the mycterismus

Ah, yes, the mycterismus. A close cousin of the paralipsis ... of which the most famous example is Mark Anthony's oration over the body of Caesar.

"We come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. ... When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

And, in the same oration, the most famous example of irony [I submit]:

"O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honourable men"