Which best express the irony present in this passage the marketplace excerpt from the scarlet letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne uses dramatic irony, or a type of irony where the audience knows something that the characters do not, when he reveals that Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl to the reader and keeps the information from Chillingworth and the other villagers.

the answer is both an appeal to ethos and logos (if that's what your question options were)

i think she wanted to protect her children from the extreme racism of the american south.