"Out of spite, the human being pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill…The animals knew that this was not the case."
What kind of Irony is this?, Situational,Dramatic, or Verbal
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Let us know what you think.
Situational? I do not know I'm not very good at irony.
I do not know I do think its situational though
I agree.
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The given statement describes a situation where the human pretends not to believe something that the animals already know to be true. This type of irony is known as dramatic irony.
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience or readers are aware of information that the characters in a story are unaware of. In this case, the animals are knowledgeable about the truth, while the human pretends not to believe it, creating a contrast between what the characters think they know and what the audience knows.
To determine the type of irony, one can analyze the context and understand the different perspectives of the characters involved. In this case, since the animals know the truth but the humans do not, it falls under dramatic irony.