An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids
goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that
flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice...“
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and
everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out
when
You think everything's gone wrong and
everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need
is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you think
A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out
When something happens in the exact opposite way of what you
expected
Irony is commonly misused.
For Something to Be Qualified as Ironic:
• the expectation of reality is opposite of what actually happens
• what is said doesn’t fit what is meant
rony that occurs when the situation is understood by the audience
but not the characters involved
TRAGIC/BLACK IRONY
type of irony that falls under dramatic irony & revolves around death
and tragic
a fire station during down
a police car being stolen outside of a police station
forgetting the name of the tea your drinking that’s supposed to help your
memory
meatless meatballs
stress relief candles burning down a house
Romeo finds Juliet drugged in a death-like sleep and assumes she's dead and
kills himself. Juliet wakes up to see Romeo dead beside her and kills herself
with his dagger. (Romeo and Juliet)
a couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts. The wife cuts off her
treasured hair to sell it to a wig-maker for money to buy her husband a chain
for his pocket watch. The husband sells his watch to buy her a set of combs
for her prized hair (The Gift of Magi)
a Jewish man is electrocuted by Christmas lights
Steve Irwin being killed by a string-ray as opposed to all the other dangerous
animals he's faced
Colonel Sanders (KFC) chokes and dies on his six piece meal
Rain on your wedding day.
I hate
slogan
t-shirts.
“You'd
be
surprised
how
much
it costs
to
look
this
Shin:
a
device
for
finding
furniture
in
the
dark
If
swimming
helps
you
lose
weight.
Explain
whales.
If money doesn't growcheap.”
on trees, why do banks have
I choked on a life saver.
branches?
IRONY: when something happens in the exact opposite
way of what you expected
For Something to Be Qualified as Ironic:
• the expectation of reality is opposite of what actually
happens
• what is said doesn’t fit what is meant
EXAMPLE:
a fire station during down
A SUV with a bumper sticker that says keep earth green
DRAMATIC IRONY: irony in a literature that occurs when
the situation is understood by the audience but not the
characters involved
EXAMPLE: Romeo & Juliet
TRAGIC/BLACK IRONY: type of irony that falls under
dramatic irony - revolves around death and tragiv
EXAMPLE: a Jewish man is electrocuted by Christmas
lights