In the short story, “The Mark of the Beast”, by Rudyard Kipling contains three types of irony; situational, verbal, and dramatic irony. Situational irony, the first type, is the expectations versus what actually happens. Now the second type, verbal irony, is when words express something contrary to the truth. As for the third type is dramatic irony, which is when the audience knows what is going to happen, but the characters do not. On page ten, in the last paragraph, the narrator says, “It is well known to every right-minded man that the gods of the heathen are stone and brass,”- which is classified as verbal irony. On page 9, in paragraph seven and eight, Fleete says, “Happy New Year to you. Never mix your liquors. I’m nearly dead.”-which
