Irony:

Dramatic Irony ~ irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation in a drama.
Situational Irony ~ an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected.
Verbal Irony ~ a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
Ambiguity ~ doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.

Response

1.) The author uses dramatic irony by having Mrs. Maloney use the leg of lamb to hit the top of her husband's head. She than gives the lamb to the police officers to eat it, and they would never suspected the leg of lamb to be the object used to kill Mrs. Maloney's husband. I found the situational irony to be more powerful because the police officer's were eating the object that killed Peter Maloney and they never suspected it.

2.) Mrs. Maloney is using verbal irony when she asked the police officers to do her a 'small favor'.

3.) The title is ironic because the definition itself means ''unaware of any impending catastrophe''.

Facts About My Chinese Life:

- My mother was forced to leave her children in China, after being divorced to a barbarian.

- My siblings and I were from my mother's second marriage in the states.

- When my mother grew ill to the point where she will face death, I promised her that i would take her to China and reunite her with her children she had once left.

-Im in the band The Rock Bottom Remainder along with fellow authors: Stephen King and Barbara Kingsolver, humorist Dave Barry and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. :D

- "Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."