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In this 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. It occurs when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what it really happens. This creates an unexpected turn, that takes place at the end of the story. While waiting for Mrs. Sappleton he is told by her niece that there has been a tragedy and that Mrs. Sappleton's husband and two of her brothers went for hunting and never came back. So when Mrs. Sappleton talks as if they were all alive and caring about the shooting and the prospects for duck in the winter, Framton is confronted with something he does not expect.
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