What are examples of irony?

Question

Examples of irony in day-to-day life that we witness or see all the time...

Answer 1

to answer your post i figured i'd just give you the lyrics to ironic. hope it helps


ALANIS MORISSETTE LYRICS

"Ironic"

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

Answer 2

This happened to me this week. I slipped on the kitchen floor because a piece of ice that fell from the refrigerator's ice machine had melted into water, without my noticing it. The fall made my front teeth hit the linoleum, and broke one off. The next day, I saw in my mail stack a postcard from a insurance co. that said, "Yep, it really happens! there are x thousand people who have accidents caused by the refrigerator, every year!"

Answer 3

Here's one from personal experience: one of the things my abusive ex-husband often gave me a hard time about was my cooking (I happen to be an excellent cook, by the way). It was a constant source of ridicule and argument in our 26 year marriage. About a year after I left him, he fell ill and was unable to eat any solid food for a year. He lived on an iv solution until he was able to eat again. How's that for ironic?

Answer 4

Yeah, sounds like Irony to me. And I have to agree whole-heartedly with Etha Nox.

Answer 5

Schools/teachers complaining about how little time there is in the school year and then taking an hour a week for pep rallies.

Fat people writing diet books. (AKA Dr. Phil)

People writing books on how materialistic Americans are and then going on talk shows to promote them.

Answer 6

In June 2005, the State of Virginia Employment Agency, which handles unemployment compensation, announced that they would lay off 400 employees for lack of work, because unemployment was so low in the state.

Answer 7

like on family guy when lois looses the car to the american indians, meg says "way to go mum, i finally get my drivers liscence and you lose the car to an electronic poker machine. how ironic" Sorry i never understood the concept of irony.

Answer 8

What's the purpose of a rhetorical question?

This is irony.

Answer 9

1) A man saying he hates ice cream but ordering an ice cream cake.

2) A monkey not liking a banana

definition: an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

the incongruity of this.

Answer 10

It is ironic that a President who is obviously mentally handicapped would be against stem cell research that might repair the same type of brain damage he has.