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.

My Robot Does My Homework
I Love to Do the Laundry by Kenn Nesbitt
I Love to Do the Laundry
December 26
Snow Mail by Kenn Nesbitt
Snow Mail
Moving to China
I Saw a Sloth Play Soccer
I’m Not Picky
My Penmanship Is Pretty Bad by Kenn Nesbitt
My Penmanship Is Pretty Bad
Morning Sports
Josh, Who Didn’t Like to Wash
My Mouse is Misbehaving
Snow Day
My Parents Sent Me To the Store
My Dog Is Not the Smartest Dog
My Mirror Likes to Argue
I Like Myself the Way I Am by Kenn Nesbitt
I Like Myself the Way I Am
I'm Thinking of Writing a Poem Today by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m Thinking of Writing a Poem Today
Ode on a Unicycle
Science Unfair
Mr. Obvious
An Echo in My Room
The Marvelous Homework and Housework Machine
I Didn’t Do It
I Ran for the Chapstick