Dramatic irony means that
a. the audience knows something the character or characters don't.
b. everything works out in the end.
c. things are going to end very badly for someone.
d. the cosmos, state, family, and individual follow the same pattern.

hancock was president of congress when the declaration of independence was adopted and signed. he is primarily remembered by americans for his large, flamboyant signature on the declaration, so much so that "john hancock" became, in the united states, an informal synonym for signature.

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