Verbal Irony is when words are expressed contrary to the truth or someone says the opposite of what they really mean, in other words or to sum it up Verbal irony is sarcasm. Peck uses Verbal Irony commonly in the short story, for example he states,”Then quicker than the eye, she brings the side of her enormous hand down in a chop that breaks the Kobra’s hold on Melvin’s throat…...You could hear a pin drop in that hallway(peck 14)”.This shows that peck used Verbal Irony to express how quiet it was in the hallway.
Throughout the anecdote, Richard Peck uses many interesting comparisons .An example would be when Peck says,”In a move of pure poetry Priscilla has Monk in a hammerlock,His neck’s popping like gunfire, and his heart’s bowed under the