The answer is: situational irony.
Situational irony is a literary device in which the outcome is unexpected: the result is unpredicable or the opposite occurs instead. For example: "The bus driver has failed the driving test," or "The cook has burnt the chicken."
a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, things, or ideas.
Noun Examples
Man, Milk, Cow, America
These Are ALL Things
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Can you turn on the headlights?
The excerpt that tells the White family's uncertainty on the Major's story would be when Mr. White said:
"If the tale about the monkey's paw is not more truthful than those he has been telling us," said Herbert, as the door closed behind their guest, just in time to catch the last train, "we shan't make much out of it." This is because they are not sure what is true about the information that a stranger told them in the train.
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An argumentative research paper is analytical, but it uses information as evidence to support its point, much as a lawyer uses evidence to make their case.
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