tragic irony
noun/ˌtrædʒɪk ˈaɪrəni/
/ˌtrædʒɪk ˈaɪrəni/
[uncountable] (specialist)- a technique in literature in which a character’s actions or thoughts are known to the reader or audience but not to the other characters in the story
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