LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
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humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
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the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dramatic irony is a form of irony. It is both a literary and theatrical device in which the reader or audience knows more than the characters they are following. The characters’ actions have a different meaning for the audience than they do for the actors or characters, and this device often lends itself to tragedy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The purpose of dramatic irony in creative writing is to engage the reader with the story. The writer does this by privileging the reader with information that the characters do not have. This creates a sense of tension between what the reader knows and how the characters behave.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dramatic irony put simply, is when the audience knows something that the characters in your film or T.V. series don’t.