Question

In act Iv scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet when friar Lawrence enters he say come is the bride ready to go to church why is this line dramatically ironic?

Answer 1

He knows that Juliet has fallen into a deep sleep that resembles death

Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is the following. He knows she has fallen into a sleep that resembles death.

Dramatic irony is a literary resource that the author of the play uses when there is a contradiction of the argument a character is expressing in the scene with the different information the public/audience/reader already knows about that situation. So in simple terms, the character thinks one thing that the audience knows is not true.