Verbal Irony: A man tries out a new mattress but it is very firm and he says "It is so soft I might float away"., When the air conditioning goes out on a hot summer afternoon, a tenant says to their landlord, "I'm really enjoying the cool climate in my apartment!", After a bad accident a boy’s friends tells him “your car has never looked better!”, A woman’s shoes get drenched in the rain and she says “I think the water just gave them a new fashionable touch!”, Situational irony: A marriage counselor files for divorce., The police station gets robbed., An English teacher has poor grammar., A famous singer sings her own song at a karaoke bar but is booed., Dramatic irony: In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet is only asleep, but Romeo thinks she is dead and kills himself., In a horror film, the audience knows that the killer is hiding in the closet, but the girl does not and goes inside., A popular teenager bullies a girl at school for failing a test, but she herself hasn’t realized that she also failed., A father is warning his children to be aware of pickpockets while his own wallet is being pulled out of his pocket from a pickpocketer behind his back.,

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