Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it’s God’s work I do.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 3. The lying Abigail provides us with an example of verbal irony when she claims to be doing God’s work, when she is in fact doing the work of the Devil. In this quote she is also trying to make the court believe that Mary Warren is working for Satan and has taken the form of a yellow bird perced on the rafters.