Question

Which of the following scenarios would most likely be considered situational irony?

Answer 1

Answer:

D. You purchase a watch for your mom's birthday, and then discover she just purchased the same watch for herself online.

Explanation:

Situational irony occurs when the character did an action expecting a result, but the result that happens is different from what the character expected.  In this case, you did an action that was to buy a watch and wanted to give it to your mother since she did not have that watch, but something different happened; your mother had already bought an equal watch.

Answer 2

ALT ANSWER FOR APEX

Renee was elated when they handed her the first-place spelling bee plaque, but she frowned when she discovered they'd misspelled a word on the plaque.