Literary Irony
286 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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Is it ironic that In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the To Be or Not To Be soliloquy reveals Hamlet's growing madness, whilst immediately after this scene Claudius determines that Hamlet is not mad?
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Is it ironic that Hercules killed a lion and died from a tunic?
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Is it ironic that In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game, a celebrated hunter with little respect for the animals he kills for sport, later becomes the hunted?
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Is it ironic that I posted on Facebook: "I finished reading 'The Circle' (a book about the totalitarian distopia that social media leads to in a fictional future) and it makes me want to fast from Facebook.
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Is it ironic that People can be lured into looking at a website that tries to define irony (ahem)?
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Is it ironic that He interrupted his preaching, now and then, to saw a stick of wood; but the sawing was a pretense -he did it with his mouth; exactly imitating the sound the bucksaw makes in shrieking its way through the wood.
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Is it ironic that Necromantic books are heavenly?
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Is it ironic that Writing about King Lear going crazy is making me go crazy.
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Is it ironic that A character in my book has a boyfriend that hits her, while her mother was beat by her dad, and her aunt was hit by various men.
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Is it ironic that Hamlet uses Socratic irony rather than tragic irony to expose his father's murder.
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Is it ironic that Explain irony of this: "Yes,you make laws like the white government in this country without consulting the oppressed,"Mrs Nebo commented".