The following passage from "the invalid's story" is an example ofsec. 28: , piled them on a breadth of sheet iron in the middle of the floor, and set fire to them. sec. 29: when they got well started, i couldn't see, myself, how even the corpse could stand it.
a. humor -- a fire burning in a express car is funny.
b. situational irony -- the "corpse" is a box of guns; guns (or corpses) don't care about smell.
c. verbal irony -- the narrator says they tried.