I don't know if there's any type of tension that's more fun for an audience than dramatic irony. Dramatic irony occurs when your audience knows something that some or all of the characters in a film ...

From William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “The Book of Mormon,” the power of irony transcends genres and ...

A classic example of dramatic irony occurs in Oedipus of Sophocles. A plague is raging in the city and many people have died. The Oracle at Delphi gives a startling explanation – the plague will cease ...

Like simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole, irony is a very useful figure of speech. Writers and other creative workers regularly make use of it, including comedians. It can, however, also ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts One of my pet hates is when ...