Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 13 AIL 1216 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Audience Must Be Told First
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The idea
Dramatic irony needs the audience to hold information the character lacks, so a play has to deliver that information before the ironic scene. Finding where the audience was told is the reliable way to locate the irony, and the telling is usually recent.
In practice
Find where the audience was told.
Where people slip
The telling comes shortly before.
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