Question

“The miner had abandoned everything to go mining for emeralds. For five years he had been working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands of stones looking for an emerald. The miner was about to give it all up, right at the point when, if he were to examine just one more stone—just one more—he would find his emerald. Since the miner had sacrificed everything to his Personal Legend, the old man decided to become involved. He transformed himself into a stone that rolled up to the miner’s foot. The miner, with all the anger and frustration of his five fruitless years, picked up th

Answer 1

The fact that the man was unsuccessful for years is an example of situational irony.

The fact that the man was looking for emeralds is an example of dramatic irony.

The reader knows the stone is the old man, but the miner doesn’t. This is dramatic irony.

The miner almost quits seconds before he was about to achieve his goal. This is dramatic irony.

Answer 2

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