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Situational Irony
• Situational irony is an outcome that
turns out to be very different from
what was expected.
Examples of Situational Irony
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A fire station burns down.
A police man gets arrested.
A hairdresser having a bad hair day.
A pick pocket stealing money from a
pick pocket that had stolen from
him.
• Stepping aside to avoid a puddle and
falling into a swimming pool.
• Donald Trump getting “fired.”
• Snooki lecturing at the ivy league
school, Rutgers University.
Directions
• On a separate sheet of
notebook paper number 1-4.
• Be sure to write your name!
You will be turning this in.
NUMBER 1: Write 1-2 sentences explaining how this picture is
an example of situational irony.
What is ironic about the picture?
NUMBER 2: Write 1-2 sentences explaining how this
picture is an example of situational irony.
NUMBER 3: Write 1-2 sentences explaining how this
picture is an example of situational irony.
Your Turn
• NUMBER 4: come up with your own example of
situational irony and write it for Number 4. (1-2
sentences).
• HELP: Definition of Situational Irony
– Situational Irony is an outcome that turns out to be
very different from what was expected.
– You expect something to happen a certain way,
however, it doesn’t work out at all like you expected.
– What makes it ironic is the fact that you wouldn’t
expect that to happen—think about the fire station
burning down or policeman being arrested.