The Open Window Irony

A cheeky 15 year old teen, Vera, tells a spooky story the Mr. Nuttel who is diagnosed with a nervous condition about how Mrs. Sappleton opens the window to wait for her husband and brothers to come home from the marshes every year since the "tragedy", three years ago. British author Hector Hugh Munro, also known under his pen name Saki, published "The Open Window" in 1914.Through the perspectives of the characters Mrs. Sappleton and Mr. Nuttel in the story, the author's use of literary devices like dramatic irony, oxymoron and verbal irony creates humor. First, the author demonstrates the use of dramatic irony a literary device used to describe when the readers knows something that the characters don't.
The author uses dramatic irony to create a humorous effect through the perspectives of Mr. Nuttel, Mrs. Sappleton and the Reader. In paragraph 18, Mrs. Sappleton says, "my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. [window]", revealing that her husband and brothers are alive. This demonstrates the author's use of dramatic irony through the perspectives of Mrs. Sappleton, Mr. Nuttel and the us, the reader. Humor is created from the perspective of Mr. Nuttel sympathizing with the "death of Mrs. Sappleton's loved ones, where in reality they're still

Sappleton.In paragraph 27, Mrs. Sappleton says, "A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttel, could only talk about his illnesses, and dashed off without a word of goodbye or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost."This demonstrates verbal irony through Mrs. Sappleton saying that "one would think he saw a ghost", which Mrs. Sappleton doesn't mean an actual ghost. The humorous effect is created through Mr. Nuttel's perspective, who actually thinks he saw a ghost. Finally the author uses an oxymoron, a figure of speech with contradicting terms, to describe the character Mr.