The audience knowing the plot and the character playing has no clue about the criminal makes the whole scene a dramatic irony. Therefore, it is an example of dramatic irony.
Dramatic irony is a literary technique whereby the reader or audience comprehends events or people in a work better than the characters do.
Examples:
Dramatic irony can be seen, for instance, in a Titanic movie when a character leans on the balcony just before the ship strikes the iceberg and remarks, "It's so beautiful I could simply die."
When the audience is aware of information that the characters are unaware of, dramatic irony results.
In a horror movie, a girl hides in the killer's former hiding place, the closet (the audience knows the killer is there, but she does not).
Romeo kills himself despite the fact that the audience knows that Juliet is simply asleep and not dead in Romeo and Juliet.
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