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What is situational irony?

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Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead.
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Situational irony is when the expected outcome doesn't happen. Irony of a situation basically. For example, a police station gets robbed or a fire house burns down. 
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