The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 1 Situational irony is when a character or the reader expects one thing, but something very different happens or is true. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that a character does not know. Which two are examples of irony in the story? A The narrator's attempts to hide the murder actually result in him giving himself up to the police. B The narrator chooses to commit the murder in the middle of the night, when the old man is asleep. C The more the narrator insists that he is not mad, the more readers can detect evidence of his madness. D The narrator admits that he liked, even loved, the old man, and that he only objected to his pale, filmy eye. E The neighbor hears the old man shriek and summons the police out of concern for his safety.