Different types of irony, verbal and dramatic, not only create a sense of humor but also empower the suspense of the story. First of all, because verbal irony provides opposite meaning, it creates a sense of confusion about the truth and makes the plot suspenseful. From the beginning of “The Open Window”, the niece told Mr. Nuttel, a fictional tale about her missing uncles, “Her husband and two young brothers went off for shooting. They never came back.”(Saki 2) The niece’s fictional tale was opposite from the truth, which ignites the suspense of the story due to reader’s interest of understanding what really happened. Next dramatic irony creates suspense because it provides information to the reader that character from the story does not