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What does dramatic irony mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dramatic irony? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A theatrical effect in which the true meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
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Edgar Allen Poe has a very unique style of writing in many ways. Poe tends to write his stories emphasizing dramatic irony and verbal irony
A Doll's House also contains many examples of dramatic irony.
Miller ramps up the dramatic irony inherent in their story.
Chapter two delves into this theme in detail by introducing dramatic irony and free indirect style.
In drama, such oblique or hidden cataphoric pointers to what is yet to come are usually called dramatic irony.
Exit Scales, laughing, and presenting a fine example of dramatic irony to any one in the secret of Fate.

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