


The narrator makes it clear that Reverend Lee “was not aware of what he was doing and therefore he never thought to correct himself.” That readers aware of his back-to-front recurrence of dyslexia while he remains oblivious is an example of a plot being constructed on a foundation of dramatic irony. The plot of the story is dependent upon dramatic irony which is when the reader possesses important knowledge that characters in the story do not.

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