Read the poem below and complete the statement that follows. “Irony”by Jennifer T. The shards of glass littered the cold, black asphaltlike sparkling stars strewn across the night sky. Their brilliance catching the corner of my eye,making me slow down, just to look at them a little longer. In my awe of the sheer beauty of merely broken glass,I couldn’t help but think How someone else’s tragedycould be so beautiful to me. Source: T., Jennifer. “Irony.” Teen Ink. Teen Ink, n.d. Web. 6 July 2011. The poem is an example of __________.
The poem presents shattered glass, likely connected to someone else’s tragedy, as beautiful and captivating to the speaker. That unexpected contrast between a tragic scene and the speaker’s admiration is situational irony. It is not dramatic irony, which requires the audience to know something a character does not.
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