Question

In Shakespeare’s play All’s Well That Ends Well, the audience knows that Helen has switched places with Diana, while Bertram has no idea.

This type of scene in a play is an example of which form of irony?

-Dramatic
-Verbal
-Climatic
-Situational

Answer 1

This is called Dramatic irony

Such irony has existed even in the times of Ancient Greece and is fairly common in plays.