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Dramatic irony, a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters. Essentially a joke in a play in which the audience knows or will learn something the characters are unaware of. [[Chris]] being Chris continually makes rather [[chris and reality|dubious]] claims, and outright [[lies]], as well as refuses to learn from his mistakes, leaving him in a state of perpetual catharsis, like some [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex | demented character from a greek play].
Dramatic irony, a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters. Essentially a joke in a play in which the audience knows or will learn something the characters are unaware of. [[Chris]] being Chris continually makes rather [[chris and reality|dubious]] claims, and outright [[lies]], as well as refuses to learn from his mistakes, leaving him in a state of perpetual catharsis, like some [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex demented character from a greek play].


List of ironies
List of ironies

Revision as of 15:24, 20 January 2021

Dramatic irony, a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters. Essentially a joke in a play in which the audience knows or will learn something the characters are unaware of. Chris being Chris continually makes rather dubious claims, and outright lies, as well as refuses to learn from his mistakes, leaving him in a state of perpetual catharsis, like some demented character from a greek play.

List of ironies



The following is a list of all instances of unintended irony created by Chris, likely coming from his complete tone-deafness regarding logic and social norms. The list is incomplete, nor will it likely ever be.

  • Chris spent much of his time refuting the presidency of pmurt, while his county actually came out pretty far in his favor, (interestingly Charlottesville, the equivalent of CWCville came out blue).