NOUN
- (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
How To Use dramatic irony In A Sentence
- Also, like the irony in our daily life, dramatic irony can also be described in this framework.
- It was above all the smile of dramatic irony, of those who have privileged information.
- Dramatic irony also plays an important role in exposing flat characters' absurdity and round characters' defects.
- Oedipus Rex is notable for its use of dramatic irony: everybody in the audience knows from the start that Oedipus himself is the guilty party he seeks out for punishment.
- A Doll's House also contains many examples of dramatic irony.
- The structure, alternating between Strike, the teenage clocker, and Rocco, the middle-aged detective, is unusually supple--Price doesn't give away all the information to set up a dramatic irony between the two, instead leaving the reader in the dark so that neither character becomes a dupe in our eyes. Reading away.
- The two basic forms of irony found in these tales are verbal irony and dramatic irony.
- It can be divided into three subtypes, viz. verbal irony, dramatic irony and situational irony.
- Next thing you know, they'll be using dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire.
- Irony can be generally divided into four types: verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony. This thesis takes verbal irony as the focus of research.
