Cloture â a process for limiting debate on a measure â is the Senateâs only weapon against the filibuster. The details have changed several times since its creation a century ago, but hereâs the rule as it stands today: cloture is invoked when three-fifths of all sworn-in senators vote for the cloture motion.
Tragic irony is also known as dramatic irony. This irony can be seen in almost all of the classic dramas classified as tragedies. In those dramas, the author often allows the reader, or audience, to know more about a situation than the characters.ragic irony, or dramatic irony, is a device authors use to draw their reader into the story. Tragic irony occurs when there is a greater meaning in a characters words or actions understood by the audience only.
1 What interested them most was dramatic irony, which is what occurs when the reader or the audience knows something that a character doesn't (Oedipus was the favorite example); far from being funny, this was for the Greeks the stuff of tragedy.. Routledge, 2002). 2  Ironic Tension.  3  Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows more than one or several of the characters onscreen, a condition which pushes audience attention into the future because it creates anticipation about what is going to happen when the truth comes out.