WAEC Literature in English 2016 Theory — Question 13

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Examine the use of dramatic irony in She Stoops to Conquer. In the play She Stoops to Conquer, the writer draws on dramatic irony to achieve comic effect. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows situations and events hidden to the characters but are known to several events. This is dramatic irony in the play. Marlow and Young Marlow are misguided by Tony to believe Hardcastle's house is an inn. This dramatic irony runs through the play; the audience begin on Marlow and Tony's dialogue, one Hast begin the mistaking of Hardcastle's house for an inn, unaware to Mr. Hardcastle's house. Marlow proceeds to achieve events to achieve his mission within his vital role in the dramatic irony of the events that occur in the play, the writer uses drawn on dramatic irony. Comic effective devices are used both to the comic effects, the writer draws on dramatic irony.