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If you've ever read the short story, "The Possibility of Evil" please help me answer this question.

If you've ever read the short story, "The Possibility of Evil" please help-example-1
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Step-by-step explanation:

When Miss Strangeworth exclaims to Helen Crane, "Nonsense, all babies are different; some of them develop much more quickly than others". This is an ex of verbal irony because she writes in a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Crane saying,

Didn't you ever see an idiot child before? Some people just shouldn't have children, should they?

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