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After Juliet's body is found, Lord Capulet says these lines from act IV of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:

CAPULET: Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.

How is the excerpt an example of dramatic irony?

A.
Capulet does not know that his true son-in-law is Romeo.
B.
Capulet expresses his grief by personifying death.
C.
Capulet is insulting Paris who would have been his son-in-law.
D.
Capulet does not know that Juliet is actually alive.

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Answer:

B

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