dramatic irony

A literary and theatrical device where the audience or reader knows more about a situation or a character's fate than the characters themselves do, creating tension or humor.

• 🇩🇪Ein literarisches und dramatisches Stilmittel, bei dem das Publikum oder die Leserschaft mehr über die Situation oder das Schicksal einer Figur weiß als die Figur selbst, wodurch Spannung oder Humor entsteht.

1. Literary device B2 formal

   A situation in a story or play where the audience knows more about the events than the characters do, creating tension or humor.

   • In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows Juliet is alive, but Romeo thinks she is dead, creating dramatic irony.
   • The play uses dramatic irony when the hero walks into a trap that the audience has already seen being set.
   • Dramatic irony makes the audience feel anxious because they know the truth the character is unaware of.

   🇩🇪Literarisches Stilmittel