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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
Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—The Golden Sky:
When the governess recounts first arriving at Bly, she uses visual and auditory imagery to describe the surroundings:
I remember the lawn and the bright flowers and the crunch of my wheels on the gravel and the clustered tree-tops over which the rooks circled and cawed in the golden sky.
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Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—The Golden Sky:
When the governess recounts first arriving at Bly, she uses visual and auditory imagery to describe the surroundings:
Unlock with LitCharts A+I remember the lawn and the bright flowers and the crunch of my wheels on the gravel and the clustered tree-tops over which the rooks circled and cawed in the golden sky.
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Chapter 4
Explanation and Analysis—The Sane Inference:
There's some dramatic irony at play the first two times the governess sees the apparition of Peter Quint, since her entire narrative has already been framed as a ghost story. Therefore, readers already have an inkling that Quint must be a ghost, but the governess herself takes a little while to come to this conclusion.
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