Miller uses different kinds of irony in his play to emphasize the senselessness of the accusations and trials. In situational irony, a discrepancy takes place between what is expected or appropriate to happen and what actually does happen. How are the false confessions in Act Three examples of situational irony?

Explanation:

Situational irony is when actions or events have the opposite result from what a person expecta or what the person intends .

An example of situational irony in the passage is

1) when Elizabeth Proctor is questioned about whether or not her husband had an affair with Abigail Williams. It was her instinct to lie to protect her husband but instead, she made her husband seem like a liar because she didn't know he had already confessed.

2)When Mr. Proctor tried to get Mary Warren to confess the truth that the girls were lying but instead, it backfired making seem even more suspicious.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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the correct answer is "the rhythm and rhyme scheme add to an eerie and suspenseful tone". poetry is literature written in stanzas and lines that use rhythm to express feelings and ideas. poets will pay particular attention to the length, placement, and grouping of lines and stanzas. this is called form. lines or whole stanzas can be rearranged in order to create a specific effect on the reader.