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What is an example of situational irony in the excerpt? 2," said restful sle open on g a large ""Her great tragedy happened just three years ago, said the child; 'that would be since your sister's time." O "Her tragedy?' asked Framton; somehow in this restful country spot tragedies seemed out of place." "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." O "I hope you don't mind the open window,' said Mrs. Sappleton briskly: my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. Framton; he tragedy?" a day, her If for their ossing the

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An example of situational irony in the excerpt is that the reader knows something that the character Framton does not. Specifically, the reader knows that the open window and Mrs. Sappleton's cheerful talk about her husband and brothers returning from shooting is not a good thing because, as the chi