Read the passage below and answer the question. For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad Indeed would I be to expect it, In a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not- and very surely do I not dream.
Why is the passage an example of verbal irony?
A: the narrator does not expect to believed
B: the narrator really is mad
C: the narrator does not write his story
D: the narrator is truthful
*A IS NOT RIGHT*