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dramatic irony

noun

Definition of DRAMATIC IRONY

:  irony 3b
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First Known Use of DRAMATIC IRONY

circa 1907

Other Literature Terms

apophasis, bathos, bildungsroman, bowdlerize, caesura, coda, doggerel, euphemism, poesy, prosody

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