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Question 12 of 20

The following question refers to the play Twelfth Night by William
Shakespeare.
The following lines provide a good example of which literary device?
"If this were played upon a stage now, I could / condemn it as an improbable
fiction." (act 3, scene 4, lines 136-137)
A. Conceit
B. Dramatic irony
C. Synecdoche
D. Hyperbole
E. Paradox

Answer 1

B. Dramatic irony

Step-by-step explanation:

Dramatic Irony happens when the audience knows what's happening or will happen next but the actors are oblivious of it.

Therefore, from the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, the given lines provide a good example of dramatic irony.