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Once again, adding dramatic tension to the scene.
The two genres might seem totally different, but the reason they're both so popular is perhaps because what they have in common: their use of dramatic irony.
Dramatic irony, though, is what we will be looking at right now.
Dramatic irony is when the audience seems to know more about an event, a situation, or a conversation than the characters in the movie, on the show, or in the book do.
That tension is dramatic irony: you know something more than the characters in the film.
This isn't the same tension as the horror film since it is probably pretty funny as the character tries to figure out the whos and the whats, but it serves as a great example of the tension and suspense of dramatic irony.
The audience wants, no, needs, to see the tension of the dramatic irony broken either by the scary person jumping out of the shadows or by someone finally revealing someone's true identity and clearing up the confusion.
So, when you feel like you are in on a secret, that is dramatic irony, a hallmark of all the great writers, from Shakespeare to Hitchcock.
Some dinosaurs had high crests on their heads, and others had long, dramatic tail feathers.
With the dramatic low pressure in a storm, the air gets pulled in tighter and tighter, so it gets going faster and faster, and this is how we get the high winds of a hurricane.
With both of these methods, no two prints are exactly alike, but both reveal dramatic images of the fish.
Not only are they refugees, out of home, not only have they suffered what they have suffered, but they are living in very, very dramatic conditions.
And not only do the refugees live in very dramatic circumstances inside those countries, but the local communities themselves are suffering, because salaries went down, because there are more unemployed, because prices and rents went up.
Soon other troops began performing in the same style, and Kabuki made history as Japan's first dramatic performance form catering to the common people.
A tiny particle, like an electron, though, can show dramatic evidence of its dual nature.
That's why, if there's a lesion of the spinal cord, this has dramatic effects.
We play, and we're joined by her sisters, and there's a lot of laughing, and I give a dramatic reading from the book Everybody Poops.
The exponential curve on solar is even steeper and more dramatic.
The projections for the future are even more dramatic, even though fossil energy is now still subsidized at a rate 40 times larger than renewables.
But it's not always as sudden and dramatic as it is in the movies.
And at the risk of sounding dramatic, in that moment, I had Christopher's life in my hands.
Over the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.
This could potentially be quite dramatic.
He bends the rules of medical illustration by inserting a very dramatic light and shadow.
So, we set up a site in Mason County, Washington, and we've seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of coliforms.
And this turned out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said, "OK, you can save your team's robot if you destroy another team's robot."
It allowed sewage pipes to be placed, dramatic decrease in diarrheal diseases, at the cost of some outdoor air pollution.
And yes, soap operas are larger than life, drama on a grand scale, but our lives can be filled with as much intensity, and the stakes can feel just as dramatic.
That was dramatic.
And it sounds so strange to me now, but at 22, I longed to have dramatic experiences, and in that moment, I was irrational and furious and devastated, and weirdly enough, I thought that this somehow legitimized the feelings I had for the guy who had just left me.
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