What is Jane Austen's tone in Emma?

The overall
tone of is ironic, but within that, it is also sympathetic and comic. At
the end of the novel, the tone is romantic.

Emma is
filled with situational(which is when events works out to be the opposite of what we expect), as
well as dramatic irony (in which the audience knows what the characters in a story don't), and
verbal irony (in which people say things that are the opposite of what they mean).

Emma shows events through the clueless Emma's eyes, so we have a
good deal of situational irony. The chief example is Emma entirely missing the secret love
between Jane and Frank, despite all the clues Austen sprinklesand we as an audience are deceived
as well. Ironically, Emma thinks Frank looks down on Jane, when the opposite is true.

Dramatic irony occurs when we know that Mr. Elton is after Emma as a bride, while
she is convinced he is after Harriet. Verbal irony is sprinkled throughout
the novel, but the opening provides a good example: Mr. Woodhouse mourns Miss
Taylor,...