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.

My Dog Does My Homework

April Fool’s Day

My Virtual Puppy

I Bought a Maserati

I Think My Dad Is Dracula

My Puppy Punched Me In the Eye

I Made a New Password

I Finished My Homework

Olympic Granny

My Teacher Took My iPod

My iPhone Did My Homework

Today I Got a Valentine

Running Late

It’s Friday the 13th Tomorrow

I Can’t Get Enough of this Pokémon Go

Chelsea Had Some Chocolate Milk

All My Great Excuses

My Dog Ate My Homework

My Teacher Ate My Homework

Perfect

When Sarah Surfs the Internet

A Goat in a Landfill

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Today I Wrote this Poem