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.
Can you please list the paragraph in question?
Answer:
B. The meeting was only supposed to be for an hour; however, it ran for nearly 3 hours.
Explanation:
A semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought. When a semicolon is used to join two or more ideas (parts) in a sentence, those ideas are then given equal position or rank. Use the semicolon if you have two independent clauses <em>connected without a conjunction</em>. Also use the semicolon when you already have commas within a sentence for smaller separations, and you need the semicolon to show bigger separations.
can you specify what book/play you're talking about me