Competition: [Voice Workshop] Dramatic Irony

• Dramatic Irony (Britanica)
• Dramatic Irony (TV Tropes)

...a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters. Dramatic irony is a form of irony that is expressed through a work’s structure: an audience’s awareness of the situation in which a work’s characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters’, and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different—often contradictory—meaning for the audience than they have for the work’s characters.

In short, dramatic irony is a literary device (writers tool) where the reader knows something that the character does not.

An example of this in Star Wars would be us, as an audience, knowing that Chancellor Palpatine is actually Darth Sidious. This makes any scene with Anakin and the Chancellor very powerful because we as an audience know what’s going on, when the character clearly does not.

An example of this in classic literature would be in Romeo and Juliet, where the audience knows that Juliet is only asleep-not dead-but Romeo does not, and he kills himself.

Dramatic Irony can also be used to:

1. Create tension
2. Make the audience cringe on the character's behalf
3. Deliver a comedic beat of punch

Objective

For members to learn how to deploy dramatic irony when writing for stories, fictions, or character interactions.

The Challenge

Write a scene between your Main or Alternative character and another character(s) that makes use of dramatic irony as a literary tool.

• Entries must be a minimum of 500 words.
• Entries must be no longer than 750 Words. This is to help challenge both newer and veteran writers to utilize the literary tool within a short story structure.
• There is no limit on the number of characters in a scene.
• Member’s can utilize any player character or non-player character in the Brotherhood, provided they have a character sheet.
• Member’s can of course utilize their own NPCs

Grading

Grading will be done in accordance with the official Fiction Rubric, with individual feedback provided by the Voice of the Brotherhood as the sole judge.

• Entries that fail to meet the guidelines of the challenge will be graded down in accordance to the rubric and may place lower than other entries that adhere to them.
• This means that feedback on entries will also correlate directly to the challenge of using dramatic irony within the entry.
  
• An attached loadout or snapshot of your Main or Alternative character must be attached to your entry.