Dramatic irony is a when the audience know something that the actors don’t.
For example in act 1 scene 4 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, macbeth speaks in an aside (to the audience) telling us that he is going to have dispense with the kings son Malcolm in order to become king himself.

October 11, 2016 at 11:31 pm
This is good, Gentrit – can you also include a specific quotation?