An example of dramatic irony would be answer A: Romeo thought Juliet was dead when he poisoned himself, but the audience know she was alive
Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
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The correct answer is to mock the epic form, which was popular among the upper class
The other answer are also correct, however, they don't refer to the style and structure, but rather to the content. He wanted to show stylistically that the society read only epics that were bad and wanted to make fun of that.