What is dramatic irony?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. The audience knows something important that one or more characters do not know
- Step 1: Irony involves a gap between expectation and reality. Step 2. In dramatic irony the gap is between what the audience knows and what a character knows. Answer: the audience knows more than the character. Why not the others: sarcasm is verbal irony, and a reversed result is situational irony.
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