sarcasm is based on assumption everyone knows you’re joking satire, that at least part of intended audience is taken in, but careful reader must see true the intent irony, that the primary intended audience must not see true intenthttps://twitter.com/tomxhart/status/1007282726469324800 …
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it’s easy to remember if you recall that dramatic irony involves the *dramatist* having characters speak falsely - they *cannot* know, but audience must know in socrates’ case he is writing his own script but interlocutors must fall for it (readers might get it)
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irony is like judo, he may be wary but he still doesn’t see the punch coming satire is different, you’re ridiculing the ppl who fall for it and it’s not funny if no one falls for it (and pointless if everyone does)
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