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Dramatic Irony Examples

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Cyrano de Bergerac In a horror movie, suspense is often built up by the use of spooky music. The viewers often know that someone is going to die or get ripped up, or, at least, something is going to jump out because of the music that THEY c...
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For example, if the hero is going into an ambush and the audience knows it but the hero doesn't. Thanks for using ChaCha!
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Dramatic irony is when a certain character or characters have no idea what is going on, but another character or the audience of the book/ movie does. An example would be when everyone knows about a surprise party being thrown for you, but ...
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Hamlets sarcasm.."a little less kin than kind" the play within the play shows the events of what was really happening in hamlets life. Hamlets sarcasm.."a little less kin than kind" the play within the play shows the eve...
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Oedipus: "I shall rid us of this pollution, not for the sake of a distant relative, but for my own sake. For those who killed Laius might decide to raise his hand against me".
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dramatically irony is when the audience is aware of something that a character does not know In act III Elizabeth when questioned for the dismisal of Abaigail from her services she is unaware that John had previous confessed to his affair w...
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In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," when Hester is in the governor's garden to see to it that Pearl is not taken away from her, she asks the Reverend Dimmesdale to support her position. This is an example of dramatic irony as the...
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From Shmoop Lit/Quotes and Thoughts in Macbeth From Shmoop Lit on Quotes/Thoughts in Macbeth LADY MACBETH Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, ... the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! (1.5.40) Thought: Lady Macbeth se...
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Dramatic Irony in Romeo and Juliet Dramatic irony occurs in fiction or drama where the reader knows more about the true state of affairs than the characters do. Romeo and Juliet has lots of examples of dramatic irony. The biggest example is...
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Just list all the cases where the audience member knows something that one of the characters does not. For example, Shylock does not know that his daughter is married to a Christian but the audience does.
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