5 Defining Dramatic Tropes That Started With Shakespeare

From mistaken identity and dramatic irony to supernatural forces and tragic heroes, discover five defining Shakespearean ...
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Dramatic Irony: What It Is and How to Use It

While dramatic irony entails a contrast between what an audience knows and what characters know, verbal irony is a contrast between words and their meaning, and situational irony is a contrast between ...
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Uses of irony: Learning from Soyinka’s latest example

Like simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole, irony is a very useful figure of speech. Writers and other creative workers regularly make use of it, including comedians. It can, however, also ...
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Dramatic, Situational, Verbal: What You Should Know About 3 Types of Irony

From William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “The Book of Mormon,” the power of irony transcends genres and ...
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How to Strengthen a Scene with Dramatic Irony

I don't know if there's any type of tension that's more fun for an audience than dramatic irony. Dramatic irony occurs when your audience knows something that some or all of the characters in a film ...
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The irony of how we use the word “irony”

Adapted from "Irony and Sarcasm" by Roger Kreuz (MIT Press, 2020). Reprinted with permission from MIT Press. In February 1996, Alanis Morissette released the fourth single from “Jagged Little Pill,” ...