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d. when the audience knows something that the characters in the play do not
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience, readers or listeners knows something that the characters do not. It is a literary device wherein the audience's comprehension of the work surpasses that of the character's understandings. It is a form of irony contrary to that of a verbal irony because the irony of this type is embedded or can be found within the work's structure and not on its words. Though dramatic irony is usually seen in theaters, it can also be used and witness in performing arts.
The excerpt from the "General Prologue" of the Canterbury Tales that tells us that the knight had been part of the Crusades, the military expeditions in which Christians sought to win the Holy Land, is the one that says: " Full worthy was he in his liege-lord's war, and therein had he ridden (none more far) as well in Christendom as heathenesse, and honoured everywhere for worthiness".
