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William Shakespeare used dramatic irony in each and every one of his comedies, tragedies, and histories. Dramatic irony, a literary device in which the audience knows something that a character or group of characters don’t, is used in this tragedy, Romeo and Ju ....

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.... been a catastrophe, if the lovers never met. Like in the first example, the dramatic irony in Act II, scene ii also involves the two lovers. While standing outside of Juliet’s window, without her knowing, Romeo overhears her. He overhears her say, “O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?/ Deny thy father and refuse thy name!/ Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/ And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Basically, what Juliet says that she wants to marry Romeo and will defy her father to do it. This is dramatic irony because she does not know that he is there, but the audience does. Her saying this makes him want to marry her too, and them ....