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What is an example of situational irony in the excerpt?
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country spot tragedies seemed out of place."
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scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the
winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible."
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Sappleton briskly: my husband and brothers will be
home directly from shooting, and they always come in
this way.
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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
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