Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 13 AIL 1248 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: Assuming the Audience Knows
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The idea
Dramatic irony requires the audience to have been told. An option claiming irony where the extract has not supplied the knowledge is asserting something the passage does not support. Check that the printed text contains the audience's information.
In practice
Check the extract supplies the knowing.
Where people slip
No telling, no dramatic irony.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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