Question

What is an exampleof situational irony in the excerpt the open window?

Answer 1

Answer:

excerpt from "The Open Window", by Saki, the example of situational irony is “She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible." A situational irony is a literary device.

Answer 2

The situational irony in "The Open Window" is when Mr. Nuttel is expected to recover in the quiet countryside but the incident with Vera further terrorizes him so much he runs away from the house in distress.

Explanation:

• Situational irony refers to when an assumption is directly contrasted by an event that happens. It means when something opposite happens to what was being expected.
• Saki uses situational irony to create humor in "The Open Window".
• The character of Vera spins such an amazing tale of dead people and ghosts that Mr. Nuttel and the reader get captured in it and it is later revealed to be false and just a past time of Vera spinning tales.