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 "...when...

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  2. Is it ironic that A jellyfish is described using the following words: "It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water.

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  3. Is it ironic that A boy does not want to take a test if he is pressured by society to do...

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  4. Is it ironic that Hester's daughter Pearl from the Scarlet Letter thinks she will also eventually have to wear a scarlet letter like her mom when she gets older?

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  5. Is it ironic that Fortunato dies in a tomb, since that is the place where dead people go?

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  6. Is it ironic that When i gave you one second you did it in that time literally?

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  7. Is it ironic that Abner Snopes in "Barn Burning" says about his enemies that "they knew he had them beat," when in reality he had lost a court case against them just a couple hours before?

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  8. Is it ironic that The Big Bad Wolf got Swine Flu from eating the Three Little Pigs?

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  9. Is it ironic that Rory in "finally," by Wendy Mass got to do all the things on her list but for all of them, something bad happened? (ex: wanted to get her ears pierced, but had an allergic reaction to gold).

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  10. Is it ironic that "the tramp himself committed the same error by stealing the crofter's money after comparing the world with a rattrap where a man's greed often lands him in trouble?"

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  11. Is it ironic that If a school is force to removed past tenses from thier lessons?

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  12. Is it ironic that In a post by the onion, a school is force to removed past tenses from thier lessons?

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  13. Is it ironic that You spent your life studying irony and you die of anemia, thus making you quite un-irony.

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  14. Is it ironic that Would it be ironic if we were all made out of iron? (Any you get the reference?).

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  15. Is it ironic that How good it would be to die right here!

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  16. Is it ironic that I find you to be an eloquent writer with a certain ironic truth.

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  17. Is it ironic that My (female) character's uncle stipulates in his will that she must get married before collecting on her inheritance, but she does not get married because she is more successful than he ever was?

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  18. Is it ironic that Irony is that, these issues are unresolved as on date of writing.

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  19. Is it ironic that Learning English as a second language, my Russian friend said to me, "The hardest part of learning English is the pronunciation."

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  20. Is it ironic that Years before, Bob, a (supposedly) reformed ex-con, hid a stash of diamonds.

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  21. Is it ironic that Is the ending of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, Ironic?

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  22. Is it ironic that People don't know their rights in their own country.

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  23. Is it ironic that My teacher said to do a project about Fahrenheit 451, a book about books being illegal, where we made a robot that will help the censors burn books more efficiently, and I made a reference to Charlotte's Web.

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  24. Is it ironic that His interest was a mere sniff.

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  25. Is it ironic that JFK was reading a James Bond novel the night before he was assassinated.

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