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Dramatic Irony By: Callie Clark We Know………… Characters Don’t Dramatic Irony: when the audience understands the meaning of the situation because they know more information but the characters do not, which builds Irony. What Dramatic Irony is not…. Dramatic irony is NOT just a dramatic event in a work of literature. It is NOT just a very dramatic form of irony. Dramatic Irony is NOT just an event where the audience wishes that the character would not do an action. Dramatic irony is not situational irony, it does not come from what you expect to happen not occuring. The irony occurs from the difference of meaning, between the you and the characters, in a situation. As You Like It Orland and Rosalind both fled to the forest and neither knew the other was dwelling there. They both are missing each other dearly and do not know they are miles from each other. This is dramatic irony, because we as the reader know they are close and could be together but they are completely oblivious. The Giver As the reader we are aware that Jonas is experiencing his first glimpse of color. On the other hand, Jonas is very confused. The Outsiders Ponyboy, who is telling us the story, believes Darry does not love him but as the reader we see past this and know Darry does. Darry loves Ponyboy so much he gets too angry when Pony does stupid things. So one time Darry is so overcome with protectiveness and love he slaps him and Ponyboy takes this as hate. Ironically Ponyboy runs away and gets himself into a situation, that was even worse than what Darry was punishing Ponyboy for being involved in. Fahrenheit 451 Also as the reader we may notice foreshadowing that the character does not notice. If we see the foreshadowing we may experience dramatic irony. For example, in Fahrenheit 451 many hints are dropped before they go and burn Montag’s house, if we picked up on these hints we would experience dramatic irony. Pop Culture Example…. Snow White, when the old lady is actually the Que