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In Shakespeare’s play All’s Well That Ends Well, the audience knows that Helen has switched places with Diana, while Bertram has no idea.

This type of scene in a play is an example of which form of irony?

-Dramatic
-Verbal
-Climatic
-Situational

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This is called Dramatic irony

Such irony has existed even in the times of Ancient Greece and is fairly common in plays.
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