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.

Charlie Has the Chicken Pox by Kenn Nesbitt
Charlie Has the Chicken Pox
Itches by Kenn Nesbitt
Itches
Sharpen Sharpen Sharpen by Kenn Nesbitt
Sharpen, Sharpen, Sharpen
My Dog Fred
If I Had a Dollar
Grave Humor
Bigfoot’s Bewilderment
I Eat Spaghetti with a Spoon
My Kitty Likes My Goldfish by Kenn Nesbitt
My Kitty Likes My Goldfish
I Have to Write a Poem
Mr. Mirror
My City
Bigfoot’s Shoe Emporium
Elementary by Kenn Nesbitt
Elementary
Melvin the Mummy by Kenn Nesbitt
Melvin the Mummy
Fearless Frederick by Kenn Nesbitt
Fearless Frederick
Get Up! Get Up!
Payton the Painter by Kenn Nesbitt
Payton the Painter
Mr. Brown the Circus Clown
My Brother's Lips Are Sealed by Kenn Nesbitt
My Brother’s Lips Are Sealed
I'm Really Good at Texting by Kenn Nesbitt
im rlly gd @ txting
My Mother Said to Clean My Room by Kenn Nesbitt
My Mother Said to Clean My Room
I Wake Today by Kenn Nesbitt
I Wake Today
The Weasel and the Whale