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 Ran for the Chapstick
Charlie Has the Chicken Pox by Kenn Nesbitt
Charlie Has the Chicken Pox
I Tried to Find a Dinosaur
If I Had a Dollar
Itches by Kenn Nesbitt
Itches
Halloween Party
Sharpen Sharpen Sharpen by Kenn Nesbitt
Sharpen, Sharpen, Sharpen
Annette the Detective by Kenn Nesbitt
Annette the Detective
Grave Humor
My Dog Fred
Bigfoot’s Bewilderment
Science Unfair
I Eat Spaghetti with a Spoon
Mr. Mirror
I Have to Write a Poem
My Kitty Likes My Goldfish by Kenn Nesbitt
My Kitty Likes My Goldfish
Fearless Frederick by Kenn Nesbitt
Fearless Frederick
Melvin the Mummy by Kenn Nesbitt
Melvin the Mummy
Payton the Painter by Kenn Nesbitt
Payton the Painter
Get Up! Get Up!
Mr. Brown the Circus Clown
Pumpkin Problems

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