Dramatic Irony
by: Gwyn
Definition
-when the reader or the audience knows more about the events in the story then the characters
Examples
1. A couple is engaged and going to get married but the reader/audience knows that the groom is planing on running away with another woman.
2. A woman is swimming in the ocean and the audience/reader knows there is a shark behind her.
3. Tom the cat is reaching into Jerry's mouse hole we the audience/reader know there is a mouse trap on the other side.