Literary Irony

241 real-life examples of literary irony, submitted by readers and voted on by the community. Think you've spotted irony in the world of literary? Submit your own example.

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  1. Is it ironic that I wrote a poem about a metaphorical life storm and then a real storm hits.

    59% not ironic 9 votes Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that The dictionary entry for "short" is really, really long?

    78% ironic 9 votes Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that The most famous writer of proverbs, poems and sayings is anon?

    58% not ironic 9 votes Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that People often write "Your an idiot"

    88% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that A Dyslexia Research Center is in Reading?

    79% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that I am reading a kindle in a library?

    53% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that Written on a restroom wall was.

    91% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that The fear of palindromes, aibohphobia, is a palindrome itself.

    81% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that In Shakespeare's 'King Lear', Lear divides up his kingdom hoping to prevent future conflict but his actions actually cause conflict.

    85% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that The word misspelled is often misspelled?

    69% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.

    69% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that If you write a essay about how hard it is to write an essay?

    61% ironic 8 votes Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that Country is, as a word, so close to county?

    86% not ironic 8 votes Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that After a hurricane comes a rainbow.

    61% not ironic 7 votes Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Someone writes "your an idiot"?

    77% ironic 7 votes Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that To write sieg heil in hebrew.

    74% ironic 7 votes Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that A woman posts a proud picture of her child's writing, highlighting their "correct" use of the word "their" and lamenting that even many 30 year olds can't get this correct.

    79% ironic 7 votes Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that Daniel Defoe, a man, is often credited with starting the feminist movement?

    57% not ironic 7 votes Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Our teacher defines irony as "incongruity between what happens and what is expected to happen", hands us a book of short stories and tells us that they all have ironic endings, thus making us expect ironic endings?

    60% not ironic 7 votes Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Tom Sawyer in Huckleberry Finn forced the members of his gang sign an oath in blood and swear not to divulge the group's secrets, but when a boy threatens to betray that promise, Tom simply offers him a bribe.

    76% not ironic 7 votes Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that In Harry Potter, "the boy who lived" died, than came back to life?

    74% not ironic 7 votes Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that While arguing to defend that someone else is in fact "clever", that someone would misspell the word "they're" as "there".

    61% ironic 7 votes Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that In a Clean, well-lighted place, one of the last lines is "He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep.

    57% ironic 7 votes Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that "...the knight wants to marry her but she is a loathly woman"

    54% not ironic 7 votes Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that In the novel "Parable of the Sower" the only way in which Lauren's community "Earthseed" could form was through the destruction of her home "community".

    72% ironic 6 votes Vote →