One irony example that reflects dramatic irony: In Snow White and ... Every year ABC cuts down A Charlie Brown Christmas—a movie about the over-commercialization of the holidays—to make ...

Jacques Tati’s 1971 movie “Trafic” provides a creative example of dramatic irony being used for comedy. In the scene shown here, the audience knows that prankster teenagers have swapped a ...

Dramatic irony depends on the audience knowing a piece of information or context that the characters in a story do not know. For example, the beginning of the film “Titanic” emphasizes that ...

Todd Solondz’s 1998 movie, revived for a run at the IFC Center in a new 4K restoration, has scarcely lost its capacity to ...

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 ...

Let me recall an example I gave when we earlier discussed figures of speech on May 21, 2019: “Dramatic irony is often realised in a play of film. It captures a situation the audience know ...

A death row pardon two minutes late is a typical example of bureaucratic foot-dragging. But none is ironic. They are not ironic even in the broad sense of dramatic irony, which is: “A ...