How Does Saki Use Situational Irony

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The types of irony saki uses are dramatic, situational and verbal. He uses dramatic irony in paragraph fourteen when the little girl was telling the story of the dad and the two boys going out shooting and never returned, the reader knows what's happening but Frampton does not; Frampton thinks the story is for real but the reader knows it's not. Saki uses situational irony in paragraph twenty four and twenty five, where it says “ three figures were walking across the lawn toward the house”, and in paragraph twenty five where it says” Frampton grabbed his stick and hat and bolted out the door” Frampton was apart of the situation that just happened and felt and thought his own things. A way he uses verbal irony is in paragraph

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