Identify the device common to: (i) the oppressive Ministry of Love in Orwell’s1984; (ii) a horror reader knowing a killer is in a closet when the protagonist does not; (iii) Antony’s repeated description of Brutus as “an honourable man” in Julius Caesar.
All three create a gap between surface appearance and another level of knowledge or meaning. The ministry’s name contradicts its practice; the horror example uses dramatic irony; Antony’s praise becomes verbal irony. Thus B is the common category, rather than one of the more specific or unrelated figures in the other choices.
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