The following passage from
"The Invalid's Story" is an
example of
Sec. 28: "...he, piled them on
a breadth of sheet iron in the
middle of the floor, and set
fire to them."
Sec. 29: "When they got well
started, I couldn't see, myself,
how even the corpse could
stand it."
A. Humor -- a fire burning in an express
car is funny
B. Situational Irony -- the "corpse" is a
box of guns, guns (or corpses) don't care
about smell
C. Verbal Irony -- the narrator says they
tried
(It’s not a, so either B or C,)