PATHOLOGY MCQ
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Situational irony is when a character or the reader expects one thing, but something very different happens or is true. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that a character does not know.Which two are examples of irony in the story?
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The narrator’s attempts to hide the murder actually result in him giving himself up to the police.
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The narrator chooses to commit the murder in the middle of the night, when the old man is asleep.
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The more the narrator insists that he is not mad, the more readers can detect evidence of his madness.
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The narrator admits that he liked, even loved, the old man, and that he only objected to his pale, filmy eye.
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The neighbor hears the old man shriek and summons the police out of concern for his safety.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” uses irony to help add to the suspense of the story. Specifically, there are instances of both dramatic and verbal irony that are found throughout the story.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is dramatic irony because the readers know that the narrator is crazy and insane but he does not know this. The narrator is telling himself that he is not mad even though he is hearing things in heaven and hell.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement best explains how a reader can tell that the passage’s narrator is unreliable? The narrator claims he is not suffering from madness, but he has no rational reason to kill the old man.
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