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Poetic justice is a literary device in which ultimately virtue is rewarded and vice punished . In modern literature it is often accompanied by an ironic twist of fate related to the character's own action.

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n. an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically) [syn: just deserts ]

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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it? ▪ If that were so, subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice . ▪ In the real world, poetic justice is not so easily ...