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Sam was home one night when the lights went out during a thunderstorm. He was looking in the kitchen closet for a flashlight to help him see, but it was hard to find the flashlight in the dark without using a flashlight! His circumstances struck Sam as pretty funny. This story contains what kind of irony?
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Irony is a figure of speech which contradicts what is expected and what actually happens.

Situational irony is when the result of a situation is different from what you would expect. It is commonly used in sitcoms - for example, a man bought a cake to show how much he loved his wife but it turned out that she hated the sort of cake that he brought to celebrate.  

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