Which of the following quotations from Juliet’s speeches in Act 4 is an example of dramatic irony?
A.
“Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, / To help me sort such needful ornaments / As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?”
B.
“How if, when I am laid into the tomb, / I wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem me?”
C.
“O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, / Environed with all these hideous fears? / And madly play with my forefathers’ joints . . . ”
D.
“God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands . . . ”

Question

Which of the following quotations from Juliet’s speeches in Act 4 is an example of dramatic irony?
A.
“Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, / To help me sort such needful ornaments / As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?”
B.
“How if, when I am laid into the tomb, / I wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem me?”
C.
“O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, / Environed with all these hideous fears? / And madly play with my forefathers’ joints . . . ”
D.
“God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands . . . ”

anonymous · Answer

I think it is B

anonymous · Answer

B. Juliet is worrying about if she were to wake up before Romeo comes, but the audience knows that she will do the exact opposite - this is evidence of dramatic irony.

anonymous · Answer

yep thats right

therealmeeeee · Answer

Yes it's B,Don't for get to close this question