Tanya Hopker 26 February 2004 Grade 10Q Literature Essay Section A: Number 1 Dramatic irony is used to create comedy in this play. Write an essay explaining the effectiveness of this literary device in the first Act of "Twelfth Night". Twelfth Night In the play "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare the playwright uses much dramatic irony. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something in the play that the characters themselves do not know, but act out. It …showed first 75 words of 729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 729 total…entertaining in this play. Viola is in disguise and has fallen in love with the Duke. At the same time Olivia has fallen in love with a woman in disguise as a man. This is all very interesting and amusing to me. Dramatic irony can also be quite distressful because one knows something that the characters do not and sometimes one really wishes to just tell them, but you cannot. Six hundred and eighty-five words