dramatic irony

• Recurso literário e teatral em que o público ou o leitor sabe mais sobre a situação ou o destino de um personagem do que o próprio personagem, criando tensão, humor ou impacto emocional.

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.

1. Literary deviceB2formal

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

   Recurso literário

   • 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.