Irony of Irony The Lottery, All Summer in a Day, and A Jury of Her Peers all include irony. Irony is something happening in the opposite way of a prediction, has an amusing result, or is only clear to one view. Dramatic irony, directed to movies or plays, is shown in A Jury of Her Peers. For example only the women that knew the evidence was found because they hid the it from the other characters in the story. Situational irony, an unexpected outcome, displays in All Summer in a Day and The Lottery. A Jury of Her Peers is represented by the audience knowing something the others in the story line do not know. An old woman was accused of killing her husband, and while being held for questioning and researching, other people searched her belongings
