IRONY

Irony is a literary device that exploits the readers expectations. Verbal Irony occurs when a speaker or narrator sayss one thing while meaning the opposite. Dramatic Irony is a form of irony in which the reader or audience knows more about the circumstances or future events.

In the story fever 1793 the author, Laurie Halse Anderson has the reader always asking or wanting to read more. She always has the reader questioning whats going to happen next. During the story, when Mattie's mom caught the "Yellow Fever", Ms. Anderson made it seem like she is gog to die but it turns out that she ends up barely surviving so she's not the same elegant, strong and ambitious person that she was before the disease had spread all over Philadelphia. This is example of verbal irony.

Another similar event that happened was when Nell and the twin boys, William and Robert, caught the Yellow Fever disease and fell very ill almost to the point of death. This is an example dramatic irony. Eventually when the frost came and cleared the air of yelloe fever the three children became better and started to do the things that they had once done beore they gt the fever.