Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand an incongruity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain unaware of the incongruity.
Wiktionary
- n. A theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
Examples
“It was this half-religious, half-philosophical feeling, which Greek tragedy embodied; whence it derived not only dramatic irony or contrast of the real and seeming, but also its characteristic feature — repose.”
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations
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Irony
A list about iron, irons, and irony.
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Macbeth
ambivalence, prescient, omniscient, equivocation, soliloquy, discourse, antithesis, allusion, analogy, anthropomorphism, dramatic irony, juxtaposition and 18 more...
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AP Lang Words
AP Lang Terms
chiasmus, cumulative, periodic, periodic sentence, elliptical, negative-positive, ad hominem, red herring, straw man, non sequitur, logos, pathos and 25 more...
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Work Words
litotes, hubris, harmatia, apostrophe, synecdoche, meiosis, satire, irony, antecedent, epistrophe, anastrophe, dramatic irony and 1 more...
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