Dramatic-irony Quote by Lemony Snicket

“In rereading, the irony is all dramatic.”

— Djk

“Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit. Soon, she and the rest of them would be…

— Meg Wolitzer

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark…

— Anonymous

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until…

— John Boyne

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“It would be dreadfully ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of…

— Julie Kagawa

“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.”

— Christine Montross

“For although Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were about to experience events that would be both exciting and memorable, they would not be exciting…

— Lemony Snicket

“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant feeling of…

— Sianne Ngai

“there is a sense in which ugly feelings can be described as conducive to producing ironic distance in a way that the grander and…

— Sianne Ngai

“O!" Sunny shrieked. "O!" Klaus agreed. "O!" Sunny insisted. "Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean!...”

— Lemony Snicket

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do…

— Haruki Murakami