/lit/ - Literature

The audience knows something the characters don't.
Hilarity ensues.

>>10585659
try again

Off topic, QTDTIOT: how many collaborative books has /lit/ written? e.g. The Legacy of T in a Tundra, Hypersphere etc.

to say something that means its opposite and assume the other knows well enough to understand that it means the opposite

transcendental buffoonery
t. friedrich schlegel

>>10585766
No. He's probably right

Rain on your wedding day.

>>10585659
>>10585654
The characters and the audience believe something, the characters act it out, and it doesn't change a thing. The audience doesn't learn the message, the character might.

>>10585812
Or a free ride when you've already paid.

>>10585659
>>10585766
>>10585808
That's "dramatic irony". Not the popular definition of irony.

>>10585920
Dramatic irony is the only irony you should ever consider

>>10585808
he ain't, he a brainlet & u2

>>10585923
Nigga what? Back that statement up or catch these hands.

What is the point of irony?

>>10585872
a free ride when you're already late

it can be what makes and sustains a strong fruitful friendship.If you take it too far though,expect to be rejected

>>10585654

The most succinct, and broad, definition of irony is this:

unexpected contradiction

Pretty much every form of irony requires that there is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens; or between what seems to be vs. what is; or between what the audience knows vs what the character knows; or between what a person says and what a person actually means; or between what people get vs. what they deserve, etc.

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