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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
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Explanation and Analysis—A Delusional Dancer:
Irving uses dramatic irony to highlight how Ichabod Crane is disconnected from reality. One key example is the gap between Ichabod’s estimation of his own skills as a singer and dancer and the audience’s estimation:
Ichabod prided himself on his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fiber about him was idle; and to see his loosely-hung frame in full motion, and clattering about the room, you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.
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