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The Mark Of The Beast Situational Irony

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In the short story “The Mark of the Beast,” the author Rudyard Kipling uses all three types of irony- dramatic, situational, and verbal. The first type of irony is dramatic irony, which is when the audience knows something the characters do not. The second type of irony is situational irony, and it occurs when the opposite event happens then what the audience expects. The third type of irony is verbal irony; this is defined as a situation where a character says one thing, but means something completely different. An example of situational irony in “The Mark of the Beast” would be on page nine, in paragraph three, when the narrator and Strickland gave the leper the devices they used to torture him; this represents situational irony because
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