"poor little doggie, you saved his child."

"a dog's tale." mark twain, 1904.

what literary device is "his" an example of?
a. irony
b. paradox
c. flashback
d. subplot

A. irony

Explanation:

"Poor little doggie, you saved HIS child."

At the end of the story, the footman says it to the dog whose puppy was killed by the dog's owner. The sad irony of these words is that, earlier in the story, the dog had saved the master's child when a fire broke out in the nursery.

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.