Read the passage from "The Tell-Tale Heart." "I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim." Why is this passage an example of dramatic irony in Poe's story?
Question 3 options:
The readers know the narrator's deed will eventually be found out by the police.
The readers know the police are just toying with the narrator to make him confess. The readers suspect that the police know the narrator has murdered the old man. The readers know the narrator has murdered the old man, but the police do not.