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Irony

Explain the irony in each of the statements below.

1) When we go to our cabin in the mountains, I dearly love to sit by the fire in the fireplace and smell the fire. However, when I leave, I resent the smell of fire that has attached to my clothes.

Answer: It is ironic to love a smell in a private location and resent it in a public one.

2) If I prepare a huge meal on Sunday for my family, I love the way the house smells a I cook. If the smells linger in the house the next day, I am totally offended by them.

Answer: It is ironic that a good meal one day becomes an embarrassing odor the next day if a guest arrives.

3) If I pull something from an old trunk, I, immediately, think of my grandmother's house. It does not take long, though, for me to gag at the smell of stale moth balls.

Answer: It is ironic that a smell a associated with a loved one, now deceased, suddenly, becomes offensive to an adult.