Two to three times more people die in alcohol-related car accidents during the week of Christmas and New Year's than other comparable time periods. During the rest of December, 28 percent of traffic-related deaths involve a drunk driver; that number jumps to 40 percent during the week of Christmas and New Year's.
Examples of Situational Irony in Literature. This form of irony is commonly used to emphasize important scenes and to make unusual images more vivid. Usually, writers use strong word associations with this form of irony and add variation, fresh thoughts, and adornment to their literary pieces.
Irony (from Ancient Greek Îµá¼°ÏÏÎ½ÎµÎ¯Î± (eirÅneÃ­a), meaning dissimulation, feigned ignorance), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.