Situational irony: The opposite of what you think - Christopher Warner
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Leaps and bounds separate that which is ironic and that which many people simply say is ironic. Christopher Warner wants to set the record straight: Something is ironic if and only if it is the exact opposite of what you would expect.
An example of an ironic popular song is "When I'm 64" by the Beatles. It's ironic for several reasons. One, only two of the four Beatles actually made it to 64. Two, Paul McCartney had a pretty difficult 64th year of life (that's the year he divorced his wife, Heather Mills). What about Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic"? Are any of her examples actually irony? Pick another song that you think is ironic and explain why.
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