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Question 3
1 pts
Kathleen discovers that her money has been stolen out of her locker. She knows of several students who don't like her, and she suspects one of them is the thief. She asks her best friend to keep an eye out for the thief, but they can never figure out who it is.
One day, Kathleen marks a dollar bill with a bright red pen. She sticks it in her purse, hoping the thief will steal it and try to use it. Later, she sees her best friend using the marked dollar to buy lunch.
Which kind of irony is used in this passage?
• verbal irony
• situational irony
O dramatic irony
1 pts
Kathleen discovers that her money has been stolen out of her locker. She knows of several students who don't like her, and she suspects one of them is the thief. She asks her best friend to keep an eye out for the thief, but they can never figure out who it is.
One day, Kathleen marks a dollar bill with a bright red pen. She sticks it in her purse, hoping the thief will steal it and try to use it. Later, she sees her best friend using the marked dollar to buy lunch.
Which kind of irony is used in this passage?
• verbal irony
• situational irony
O dramatic irony
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GPT-4o mini
The type of irony used in this passage is **situational irony**. This is because Kathleen's expectation that the marked dollar would help identify the thief backfires when her best friend ends up using it instead. The outcome is unexpected and contrary to what Kathleen intended.