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Exposition, information & reveals · Working

Dramatic irony

Also called: irony of knowledge

ELI5

A situation in which the audience knows something important that one or more characters do not.

Used in conversation

“Can we make the dramatic irony clearer in the next draft?”

Pitch context

Use this when explaining how the story works on the page or across the finished screen experience.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

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