Heart the Lover

Heart the Lover Irony

Narrator's Secret Pregnancy (Dramatic)

The novel runs on dramatic irony—the reader grasps the narrator’s secret before its disclosure and certainly before Yash learns it.

Yash Lecturing Casey on the Risks of a Creative Life

Situational irony: Yash, who chose a safe career and a solitary life, lectures the narrator about the risks of the creative life she actually took.