What is dramatic irony?

Dramatic irony is used in script writing, it means when audience know that something is gonna happen the truth but the main character does not.

Dramatic irony is a technique used by writers predominantly in drama. It is when a character on stage is unaware of the significance or impact of what they are saying or doing, yet the audience is fully aware because of their wider understanding and knowledge of the circumstances in the play or the context in which the play is produced and performed. Put simply, the audience knows something that a character doesn't, which leads to feelings of anxiety or even humour in the audience.

Dramatic irony is a literary technique. It is when a characters words or actions is clear to the audience or reader but unknown to the character.

When the audience know something the characters do not.

The audience know the titanic sinks - the characters do not.

Dramatic irony occurs when the meaning of a situation is understood by the audience/ reader but not by the characters in the play/novel. For example in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo thinks that Juliet has drunk poison to kill herself, but the audience knows that she is just asleep.

It’s when the audience knows something that one or more characters in a play doesn’t. For example, in A View from the Bridge - Eddie comes home from drinking and doesn’t know that Catherine and Rodolfo are in the bedroom - the audience knows they are there and that Eddie will be angry so suspense is created.

A situation in plays where the words and actions are known to the audience but not to the character.

It's when the audience can see an event unfold before the character even knows it's going to happen.

Dramatic irony is a writer's technique that presents knowledge to the reader/audience that the characters do not know.

Dramatic Irony is when the audience know something that the characters do not. This creates an interesting dynamic because it will usually reveal something about what will happen later in the story or show us a detail about a character's personality.

Dramatic irony is when something is known to the audience but not to the character. It can be the secret of another character, an event, or information that is shared with the audience but not with the character.

Dramatic irony is a technique used in literature whereby the audience knows something that a character does not. Juliet's death in Romeo and Juliet is an example of this; Romeo kills himself because he believes Juliet is dead, but the audience knows she's simply asleep.

Dramatic irony is a literary technique by which you as an audience/reader member know more than the characters within the story. The characters' actions have a different meaning for the audience than they do for the actors or characters, and this device often lends itself to tragedy

Dramatic Irony is when that audience knows something that the characters do not.

For example in ‘An Inspector Calls’ Mr Birling calls the Titanic ‘unsinkable’ however because the play was written after the Titanic sank, we (the audience) know he is wrong, so dramatic irony is being used.

Dramatic Irony is a literary device used in various different plays/books, its when the audience's or reader's understanding of events etc surpasses that of its characters for example in Macbeth when king Duncan arrives at Macbeths castle he says "this castle hath a PLEASANT seat" this is dramatic irony as we know it is not actually going to be pleasant and we know that is where Duncan dies