Read the passage below and answer the question. For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit bellef. Mad indeed would ! be to expect it, In a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not-and very surely do I not dream.

Why is the passage an example of verbal irony?

•The narrator does not expect to be believed

•The narrator really is mad

•The narrator does not write his story

•The narrator is truthful