Dramatic irony is a literary device in which the audience's knowledge of events or individuals is greater than that of the characters. Read the passage below and then respond to the question.
What does the reader understand about this statement that Jonas does not?"Jonas...had wondered what lay Elsewhere. Was there someone there, waiting, who would receive the tiny released twin? Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lived a being who looked exactly the same? For a moment he felt a tiny, fluttering hope that he knew was quite foolish. He hope that it would be Larissa, waiting...Fiona had told him recently that Larissa had been released at a wonderful ceremony." (pages 114-115)
the reader knows that elsewhere doesn't exist and that nobody would find the released twin because he is actually dead. also, jonas thinks that larissa was released at a wonderful ceremony but the reader knows that there isn't any wonderful ceremony. it is actually death
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