Mr. palmer made her no answer, and did not even raise his eyes from the newspaper. "mr. palmer does not hear me," said she, laughing; "he never does sometimes. it is so ridiculous! " this was quite a new idea to mrs. dashwood; she had never been used to find wit in the inattention of any ” (sense and sensibility, chapter 19) which literary technique is austen using in mrs. dashwood's reference to “wit” in this excerpt?
a. peripeteia
b. dramatic irony
c. verbal irony
d. situational irony