Three Examples Of Dramatic Irony

Verbal, situational and dramatic, three types of irony, are commonly used by authors in their literary works to grab the attention of the readers. Verbal irony refers to when a character says something contradictory to what he means, situational irony is when the audience believes something will happen but a different scenario occurs, and dramatic irony is when the audience knows what is happening but the characters do not. In the short story “The Mark of the Beast,” the author, Rudyard Kipling, makes great use of all three types of irony. In paragraph nine on page two the narrator states, “He was gorgeously drunk” this is an example of verbal irony because the narrator did not actually mean that Fleete was gorgeous; He used the positive connotation