| 单词 | dramatic irony |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdramatic irony dramatic irony n. Theatre the incongruity created when the (tragic) significance of a character's speech or actions is revealed to the audience but unknown to the character concerned; the literary device so used, originally in Greek tragedy; also in extended use; cf. tragic irony n. at tragic adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > plot > parts of plot envoy1616 undermirth1640 counter-turn1651 under-walk1651 deus ex machina1697 happy ending1748 dénouement1752 anagnorisis1783 comic relief1783 by-play1812 tragic irony1833 by-plot1851 dramatic irony1881 plot point1909 cliff-hanging1945 subtext1960 1881 A. Sidgwick in Aeschylus Agamemnon 68 The Greek dramas are full of such double meanings, bearing only a single sense to the speaker; and the contrast between the two senses, or between the position of the speaker as he conceived it, and as it was known to the audience, often formed most effective situations, of Dramatic Irony, as it has been called. 1907 W. Raleigh Shakespeare Index 229/2 Irony, dramatic. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 295/2 Dramatic irony, i.e. the irony of the Greek drama... The surface meaning for the dramatis personae, & the underlying for the spectators. 1942 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 167/2 Dramatic irony is that which consists in a situation—not in words;..when the audience in a theatre or the reader of a book perceives a crux, a significance, a point, that the characters concerned do not perceive. 1978 P. Howard Weasel Words xxiv. 99 Producers of..pantomimes still use this sort of dramatic irony visually. < as lemmas |
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