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Situational Irony In 'What Happened During The Ice Storm'

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Penn Craver
Mr. Corbin
IB MYP English I Honors
February 16, 2023
What Happened During the Ice Storm One winter in a small town, freezing rain came down, many people thought it was beautiful, the town was shining with ice. But what happened after was not so beautiful, destruction, tree branches breaking, windows blurred, but the worst of all the pheasant's eyes froze shut. The pheasant helped Jim Heynen convey the theme of empathy through situational irony in the short story “ What Happened During the Ice Storm”. Situational irony is when the outcome is opposite or completely different then what was expected by the reader. Heynen uses situational irony to convey the theme of empathy. In the text Heynan writes “ Some farmers went ice-skating
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