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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...