poetic device: Irony

Irony is when what you expect to happen doesn’t occur, but instead results in the opposite action or effect. For example, if someone were run over by an ambulance, or if you went to “Camp Sunshine” and it rained the whole week.

All of these poems have at least one example of irony each, usually at the end of the poem. See if you can figure out what is ironic in each of these poems.

I Finished My Homework

A Goat in a Landfill

I Didn’t Do It

I Don’t Watch TV

An Echo in My Room

I Tried to Find a Dinosaur

I Made a Wish

I Made Myself a Sandwich

My Mirror Likes to Argue

Homework, I Love You

I Like Myself the Way I Am

After Thanksgiving

I Made a New Password

Running Late

My Virtual Puppy

I’m Lonely, So Lonely

I Can’t Get Enough of this Pokémon Go

Olympic Granny

My Smartphone Isn’t Very Smart

Hammering a Nail

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Dear Santa, Did You Get My Tweet?

My Puppy Ate My Earbuds

Bigfoot’s Bewilderment