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Definition of Dramatic Irony
Dramatic irony is a plot device often used in theater, literature, film, and television to highlight the difference between a character's understanding of a given situation, and that of the... read full definition
Dramatic irony is a plot device often used in theater, literature, film, and television to highlight the difference between a character's understanding of a given... read full definition
Dramatic irony is a plot device often used in theater, literature, film, and television to highlight the difference between a... read full definition
Key Examples in Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 8
Explanation and Analysis—Bad Detective :
Multiple layers of dramatic irony occurs in Chapter 8, when Fix tells the consul that he thinks he has identified the bank robber from London. The consul asks him why the robber would go out of his way to get his visa checked:
“Why was this robber so anxious to prove, by the visa, that he had passed through Suez?”
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Chapter 24
Explanation and Analysis—Twelve Hours Off:
In Chapter 24, on his way across the Pacific Ocean, Passepartout congratulates himself on keeping his watch on London time because it now matches perfectly with the timepieces on the ship. The narration uses dramatic irony to foreshadow the end of the novel:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Passepartout was ignorant that, if the face of his watch had been divided into twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, he would have no reason for exultation; for the hands of his watch would then, instead of as now indicating nine o‘clock in the morning, indicate nine o’clock in the evening, that is the twenty-first hour after midnight,—precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian.
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