Prereading is a strategy which prepares the learner for reading.

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Sometimes when reading a passage, one can become hindered in progress by difficult terms or difficult ideas.  When one prereads, one will look over the passage for bolded terms, headings, and maybe even the summaries at the end of the passage in order to gain a preliminary understanding of the content.  With this basic understanding of passage content, one will gain a bit of familiarity with content to where it will not be as difficult/challenging when reading the passage the entire way through.  

Dramatic irony is a stylistic device that is most commonly used by storytellers, in plays, in the theater, and in movies. The irony is used as a plot device to create situations where the reader knows much more about the episodes and the resolutions before the chief character or characters.

Examples are:

In Merchant of Venice, the reader is aware that Lancelot is cheating his father openly; in Tempest, Prospero and the reader are aware of the presence of Gonzalo on the Island but Miranda does not.

In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo finds Juliet in deep and drugged slumber, assumes her dead, and kills himself ignorantly before Juliet wakes up, discovers her dead lover, and kills herself.