LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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A mother expecting her children to do well in school and they make the honor roll.
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A little girl can see the future.
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A teacher tells her students they did well on the test, but actually they failed.
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A man meets his long-lost son but doesn’t know, although the reader does.
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Detailed explanation-1: -If you’re watching a movie about the Titanic and a character leaning on the balcony right before the ship hits the iceberg says, “It’s so beautiful I could just die, ” that’s an example of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don’t.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most famous and straightforward examples of dramatic irony is in Romeo and Juliet, where the titular characters die by suicide because they don’t know each other’s plans.
Detailed explanation-3: -A well-known literary example of dramatic irony is seen in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. (Spoilers ahead!) Romeo kills himself because he believes Juliet is dead, when the audience knows that she is about to wake up.