Literary · Asked 4th November 2012 · 1,207 views Is it ironic that... Writing about King Lear going crazy is making me go crazy The verdict 50% ironic 50% not 50% say this IS ironic · 1 votes Cast your vote How ironic is this on a scale of 0 to 10? 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Definitely ironic Not ironic at all Submit vote ← All examples Random example → Submit your own → More literary irony View all → Is it ironic that In The Kite Runner, Hassan's young son suffers sexual abuse by the same person who raped him when he was a boy? 80% not ironic 5 votes Vote → Is it ironic that A man spends 15 years in prison for 2 million but those years influenced him to refuse it at the end? 80% ironic 4 votes Vote → Is it ironic that In the poem THE SNAKE by D H Lawrence,the poet throws a piece of log at the retreating snake even after continually praising the snake and behaving like the it was the poet's honor to have the snake,so majestic,at his place and all the while cursing the voices of education which told him to kill the snake? It would be better if you read the poem,we have a question in our literature text book regarding this,which I need to answer. 84% ironic 16 votes Vote → Is it ironic that When Annie Sullivan is teaching Helen Keller to sew is it ironic that instead of Helen stabbing her self she stabs Annie? 88% not ironic 4 votes Vote → Not sure what counts? Read our definition of irony, or learn the difference between situational irony and plain bad luck.