...a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters. Dramatic irony is a form of irony that is expressed through a work’s structure: an audience’s awareness of the situation in which a work’s characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters’, and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different—often contradictory—meaning for the audience than they have for the work’s characters.
In short, dramatic irony is a literary device (writers tool) where the reader knows something that the character does not.
An example of this in Star Wars would be us, as an audience, knowing that Chancellor Palpatine is actually Darth Sidious. This makes any scene with Anakin and the Chancellor very powerful because we as an audience know what’s going on, when the character clearly does not.
An example of this in classic literature would be in Romeo and Juliet, where the audience knows that Juliet is only asleep-not dead-but Romeo does not, and he kills himself.
Dramatic Irony can also be used to:
For members to learn how to deploy dramatic irony when writing for stories, fictions, or character interactions.
Write a scene between your Main or Alternative character and another character(s) that makes use of dramatic irony as a literary tool.
Grading will be done in accordance with the official Fiction Rubric, with individual feedback provided by the Voice of the Brotherhood as the sole judge.
1st place
Master Ruka Tenbriss Ya-ir
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2nd place
Dr. Giyana Jurro
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3rd place
Nikora Rhan
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