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.

An Echo in My Room
The Marvelous Homework and Housework Machine
I Didn’t Do It
I Ran for the Chapstick
I Tried to Find a Dinosaur
Halloween Party
Itches by Kenn Nesbitt
Itches
Sharpen Sharpen Sharpen by Kenn Nesbitt
Sharpen, Sharpen, Sharpen
If I Had a Dollar
My Dog Fred
Grave Humor
Bigfoot’s Bewilderment
I Eat Spaghetti with a Spoon
Bigfoot’s Shoe Emporium
My Kitty Likes My Goldfish by Kenn Nesbitt
My Kitty Likes My Goldfish
I Have to Write a Poem
Melvin the Mummy by Kenn Nesbitt
Melvin the Mummy
Elementary by Kenn Nesbitt
Elementary
Mr. Mirror
Fearless Frederick by Kenn Nesbitt
Fearless Frederick
My City
Get Up! Get Up!
Payton the Painter by Kenn Nesbitt
Payton the Painter
Mr. Brown the Circus Clown

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