Marcus needed to begin traveling immediately. The first bus available was headed to a tiny desert town known as the hottest, dustiest place in the West. “One ticket to paradise,” Marcus told the counter clerk.
Which type of irony does the author use in the passage?
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Verbal Irony
C. Situational Irony
C.Situational irony also requires one's expectations to be thwarted, but in this case it occurs when an expected outcome does not happen, or its opposite happens instead. Situational irony is also sometimes called an irony of events. The outcome can be serious or humorous, but it is always unexpected.
