The Lottery and Other Stories

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

What are exsamples of verbal, situational and dramatic irony in the lottery?

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Verbal irony:

" Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery." Old Man Warner has lived 77 years without "winning" the lottery yet people much younger win and die.

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