Mcdonald's Situational Irony Analysis

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Robert De Niro once said, “There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself”, why is life so full of irony? The definition of irony is a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. There are three types of irony, and one type is called situational irony. Situational irony means when something happens that we wouldn’t expect to happen, and an example would be if Dairy Queen ran out of ice cream. Who would have thought that the queen of dairy would run out of their main source-dairy! Another example of situational irony is if McDonald’s had no McNuggets. If McDonald’s doesn’t have any McNuggets, then for sure no one else does! Another type of irony is dramatic irony, which means when the reader or audience

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