It is difficult to explain an example of dramatic irony in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. Dramatic irony is a literary device in which the reader or audience knowns something in a piece of literature, about a character or their situation, that the characters do not. In “The Necklace” there is never an overt time when the author tells the reader something that the characters are not aware of. There may be an implied action that...
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