Question

Dramatic irony means that

A. the audience knows something the character or characters don't.
B. the cosmos, state, family, and individual follow the same pattern.
C. things are going to end very badly for someone.
D. everything works out in the end.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A. The audience knows something the character or characters don't.

This is a common literary technique used in plays and goes as way back as writing plays exists. It was pretty common even in ancient Greece.