Suppose you start watching a horror film on your favorite streaming service. Which scenario would tell you that the film will us
e dramatic irony for its effect? The main character tells her sister “This house isn’t haunted”—even though she knows it is.
All of the main characters agree that a house isn’t haunted, and they decide to spend the night there.
A character scoffs at the idea of a haunted house, but the audience has already seen a ghost in the window.
One character assures another that ghosts aren’t real as both enter a building called The Ghost Shop.
I think that the diffeerece is you can have a visual image when watching the movie and really see what is going on. But when you are reading a book you get the author's point of view first hand, and you kind of get like a personal experience.
