What is dramatic irony?

This is the response given through expression that means totally different from the normal usually used to show humor and emphatic effects.

Dramatic irony is the expression of one's meaning with use of a language that signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effects. A literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

Dramatic irony is when the audience understands more about a situation than some of the characters do. Oftentimes, this understanding leads to an element of suspense because we know the character(s) will learn the truth eventually – but we don't know when or how.

Dramatic irony can be deployed in many ways and in many genres. Comedy, horror, suspense, thrillers, and dramas can all benefit from the use of dramatic irony.

So for example, Imagine your watching a Marvel character! Picture the scene , Thor walks into the room, Loki sees the Tesseract. Everyone else is distracted! You know he’s going to grab it! However the rest of the characters don’t. Which may or may not put you at the edge of your seat or you might say! when he disappears into another dimension, I knew he was going to do that! ?? Lol!

Dramatic Irony is a situation that the audience is aware of that the Characters are not necessarily aware of though relates to an event or situation that unfolds and has significant or connotes connection to the Characters actions or words. e.g. In Snow White where the audience is aware of the old woman giving Snow White an apple as the wicked Queen that wants her dead and Snow White takes a bite and falls down as if she is dead.

Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech in which words evoke the actual sound of the thing the writer refers to or describes "The fireworks boom" "the sausages sizzle" "the cereal pops". Hope that helps!

Dramatic Irony is where the audience is aware of something that is happening within a play or text which the character isn't e.g. Where King Duncan goes to stay with Macbeth at the beginning of the play 'Macbeth' and comments on him being a good host , when we the audience know that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are planning Duncan's murder: This is dramatic irony.

When the audience knows something that a character doesn't.

Dramatic irony is when the reader (you) knows something important that one or more of the characters in the story don’t know. It is as though you have been let in on a secret by the person narrating the story. It is different from situational irony (see below) - be careful not to confuse these.

To summarise:

• Dramatic Irony is when the reader knows something important that one or more of the characters don’t know.
• situational Irony occurs when an event in a story turns out to be the exact opposite of what the reader had expected to happen.

When you as the reader of whatever you’re reading, knows something which the character dosen’t

Dramatic irony is when the reader/audience is aware of something occurring in a story or play, but the characters aren’t aware of yet. An example would be in Shakespeare’s play “Othello”. Iago is a character that talks to the audience about his schemes and plans to destroy Othello, and Othello is not aware of this.

Dramatic irony is when you, the reader of the novel or spectator of the play, knows something that the characters do not.

eg In Act 1, Scene 3 of Macbeth, the witches greet Macbeth as Thane of Glamis and Thane of Cawdor: "By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives."

Macbeth (Act one, Scene three, Line 71-72)

The audience already knows Macbeth has been made Thane of Cawdor by King Duncan because the treacherous Thane of Cawdor has been put to death and Duncan has given the title to Macbeth.

When the audience know something that the characters do not.

When the audience knows something that the character/s on stage do not!

When the audience or the reader knows more about what is happening or what is going to happen than the characters. Think of the audience or the readers being able to see everything that is going on, whereas the characters can only see what goes on with themselves.

This is when the audience knows something that the characters do not know.