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.

• 🇪🇸Recurso literario y teatral en el que el espectador o lector sabe más sobre la situación o el destino de un personaje que el propio personaje, lo que genera tensión o humor.

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.

   🇪🇸Ironía dramática