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Situational Irony In The Necklace And The Ransom

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Situational Irony in a story is like a suprise you don't know that it is going to happen unless you can tell the future. Situational irony is and unexpected twist or something that you did not expect to happen producing different emotions. For example in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. HENRY situational irony creates different emotions. In these two stories there are multiple examples of situational irony. In the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant situational Irony is what makes the story you laugh at her mistakes and selfishness. In the Beginning of the story Mathilde explains how she is meant to be rich and how she was built for that life. Like she says in this sentence, “Feeling herself born

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