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mr_godi [17]
4 years ago
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In 100 words or less, define dramatic irony.

English
2 answers:
hoa [83]4 years ago
7 0
Dramatic irony: a situation where the significance of what is going on is clear to the audience, but is lost on the character(s) themselves. In other words the characters believe one thing is going on, but the audience is in possession of knowledge that makes the way the characters think of it completely wrong.

My favorite piece of dramatic irony is in Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 4, where Hamlet wants to kill Claudius but can't because Claudius was praying and he will be in a state of grace and heaven bound if Hamlet kills him. The audience knows that Claudius is not really praying. He is too filled with guilt. 
Nata [24]4 years ago
6 0
<span>Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don’t. In the classic myth of Oedipus, Oedipus leaves his family because it has been foretold that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus doesn’t know, however, that he was adopted. He ends up killing his biological father and marrying his biological mother without realizing it. This is a tragic example of dramatic irony</span>.irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.
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