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dramatic irony

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ID 453925 Last modified 13.09.2019
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Domain narratologyscreenwriting
  • generally defined as a situation when the audience learns something that at least one person on screen does not know. (International Screenwriters' Association, 2017) [This creates] a special kind of suspenseful expectation, when the audience or readers foresee the oncoming disaster [i.e. see obstacles or dangers] or triumph but the character does not [and could not]. (Abrams & Harpham, 2012, p. 295)

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