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In on a secret? That’s dramatic irony - Christopher Warner

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You’re in a movie theater, watching the new horror flick. The audience knows something that the main character does not. The audience sees the character's actions are not in his best interest. What's that feeling -- the one that makes you want to shout at the screen? Christopher Warner identifies this storytelling device as dramatic irony.

Dramatic irony is when the audience is in on a secret that the __________.

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