Dramatic irony is a literary device in which the audience possesses information that the characters do not.
In the excerpt from "A Doll's House," by Henrik Ibsen, Nora pretends to be nervous about her dance at the party so that Helmer does not read Krogstad's letter in the mailbox. A feeling of tension is developed because the letter reveals unknown information to Helmer about how Nora forged her father's signature to obtain money for her husband's health treatment in Italy.
Are you talking about the house of the Scorpion? If so, El patron was a horrible guy and his childhood was awful. Since matt is a clone of him, they are the same person and he wanted him to relive his childhood for him.
Trying to concentrate on what someone says but misunderstanding.
In question like this you need to provide context like in Fahrenheit 451 on page(ex) then ask. But Montag was mostly afraid that the captain would begin to notice that he was starting to question their ways and if burning the books is really the right thing to do.
