| 单词 | tragic irony |
| 释义 | > as lemmastragic irony tragic irony n. the incongruity created when the tragic significance of a character's speech or actions is revealed to the audience or reader but unknown to the character concerned; this incongruity as a literary device; cf. dramatic irony n. at dramatic adj. and n. Additions. Sometimes distinguished from dramatic irony as referring only to irony in a character's speech (rather than irony in actions or circumstances); sometimes used more widely to refer to any dramatic irony in a tragedy. 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 1833 C. Thirlwall in Philol. Museum 2 493 The contrast between man with his hopes, fears, wishes, and undertakings, and a dark, inflexible fate, affords abundant room for the exhibition of tragic irony. 1848 tr. in Bibliotheca Sacra & Theol. Rev. Aug. 496 I liken it to a peculiarity of Sophocles, that has been called his tragic irony. It consists in this, that the characters of the piece in their delusion are made to utter ambiguous speeches; to themselves indeed, only the one sense is clear, which becomes their presumption, but to the spectator the other too, that predicts their destruction. 1990 J. Cohen Voices of Israel iv. 134 There is a wonderfully muted tragic irony that develops as the novel progresses. Toni and Rudi remain completely preoccupied with the vicissitudes of the trip..yet the reader knows that..the two of them are travelling to their deaths. 2007 M. Montgomery et al. Ways of Reading (ed. 3) xxv. 315 An attentive reader of the passage..will recognize or experience the same sense of tragic irony that an audience will. < as lemmas |
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