Question: What main style of writing  is used in the story?

• Richard Matheson uses situational irony to get readers interested, and did the same with Girl of My Dreams. Situational irony, also called irony of events, is most broadly defined as a situation where the outcome is incongruous with what was expected, but it is also more generally understood as a situation that includes contradictions or sharp contrasts. 

  
  

• Please find out all the words and phrases which indicate the reaction of wife and husband to the button unit. You can make a chart like this in your notebook:

Wife / Norma	Husband / Arthur
rown / stare	hesitate
curious	a sick practical joke
make a scoffing sound	not make sense

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• Please read the material and learn something about narrative writing: