Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 13 AIL 1233 short lesson, about 20 seconds
And Against Situational Irony
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The idea
Situational irony is an outcome oddly fitting, which the glossary illustrates with a pickpocket having his own pocket picked. Oedipus cursing himself is close to that, but the device is dramatic because the audience's knowledge is what creates it. Ask where the effect comes from.
In practice
Ask where the effect comes from.
Where people slip
Audience knowledge marks the dramatic kind.
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