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Double Dramatic Irony?

Double Dramatic Irony?

How this author doubled down on a narrative tool that can generate humor.

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Andrew Belfry
Oct 02, 2024
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A useful craft element that can create humor is dramatic irony.

This is when the audience or reader maintains more knowledge than the characters in a story. Therefore, moments of anticipation can generate comedy even before something funny occurs. In contrast, those events could turn out differently than readers assume and thus create even more humor.

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