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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 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Chapter 17, “Beautiful and True”
Explanation and Analysis—Talking to a Stranger:
One of the novel's most poignant uses of dramatic irony is Oskar's relationship with "the renter," a mute older man who moves into his grandmother's apartment. To Oskar, the renter is a stranger with whom he can share his story. What Oskar doesn't realize, and what the reader comes to know, is that the renter is actually his grandfather, Thomas Schell Sr., who abandoned the family decades earlier.
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