1. How does situational irony, characterized by a disjunction between expected outcomes and actual events, serve as a potent tool for social critique and narrative subversion within literary works, challenging conventional assumptions and revealing underlying contradictions in human behavior and societal norms? 

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Situational irony is a literary device that occurs when the actual outcome of a situation is different from or opposite to what the audience or the ch... View the full answer