Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0314 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lexicon: Situational Irony
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The idea
Situational irony is a trope where accidental events fall out oddly appropriately. The glossary's example is the poetic justice of a pickpocket having his own pocket picked. Like dramatic irony this describes events rather than a writer's manner, so it rarely answers a tone question.
In practice
Events that fall out fittingly.
Where people slip
Events again, not manner.
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