Which situation is the best example of dramatic irony? a. a young man fights aliens and becomes a hero; at the end of the story, the reader learns that it was all a dream. b. a police detective uses clues to track down a murderer, only to discover that his partner is committing the crimes. c. a talk-show audience is aware that a man's first love is hidden backstage as he confesses his wish to see her again. d. a college student stays up all night studying for a test, only to find out the next day that the test is canceled.

C.A talk-show audience is aware that a man's first love is hidden backstage as he confesses his wish to see her again.

Dramatic irony - think Drama class, on stage. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something but not everyone involved does. In this case the audience knows about the girl backstage, but the man does not. 
Other types of irony: verbal irony - sarcasm, when someone says one thing, but means something else. Situational irony is when something unexpected happens. 

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#1: what is the simile that occurs in lines 43-47 (below)? give exact words for just the simile. #2: explain what frost means by this comparison.

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.