Based on what you know about Romeo’s tragic fate, which line in this excerpt from act V of Romeo and Juliet is an example of dramatic irony?

BALTHASAR: Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:
Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,
And presently took post to tell it you:
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.

ROMEO: Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!
Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,
And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.

BALTHASAR: I do beseech you, sir, have patience:
Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
Some misadventure.

ROMEO: Tush, thou art deceived:
Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?

BALTHASAR: No, my good lord.

Although I'm not 100% sure, I'm 90% sure that it's Balthasar's second line. When he tells Romeo to not be hasty because he looks 'pale and wild' and fears that this will harm his well being, he is foreshadowing Romeo's death.

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spartansquidvla spartansquidvla · Answer 2 · 2019-03-19T19:17:09+01:00

Dramatic Irony is when the audience knows something the characters don't.

Therefor the answer is "Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?" this is the answer because there is a letter from the friar but the person who is supposed to deliver it and tell Romeo that Juliet isn't dead has fallen ill. We as the audience know there is a letter but the characters don't, and sadly will never know there was one.