Irony – Page 10 – Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com

poetic device: Irony

Irony is when what you expect to happen doesn’t occur, but instead results in the opposite action or effect. For example, if someone were run over by an ambulance, or if you went to “Camp Sunshine” and it rained the whole week.

All of these poems have at least one example of irony each, usually at the end of the poem. See if you can figure out what is ironic in each of these poems.

Terrible Dream

Spinach is One of My Favorite Foods

Going Nowhere Slowly

When Daniel Went Dancing

The Bagel Bird

Porcupine Valentine

I Made a Hat

New Computer

I Tried to Catch a Snowflake

I Sat Down On a Seesaw

Antigravity Machine

Broccoli for Breakfast

Nimrod Nero, Superhero

I’ve Got a Secret

Can’t Sleep

There’s a Witch Outside My Window

I Built a Castle on the Beach

I Made Myself a Sandwich

I Named My Dogs the Strangest Names

What I Told Mrs. Morris When She Asked How I Was Feeling Today

Mall Crawl

I Bought a Balloon

Gordon’s Garden

Toby the Snowboarding Doberman

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