Question 2 • Common Core ELA 9 B-IC
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that a character in the scene does not. Juliet has taken a potion that makes her appear dead, but the audience knows she is still alive while the nurse believes she is dead. That makes “the audience knows that Juliet is not really dead, but the nurse does not” the correct choice.
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