Comedy!!!!
Low Comedy: lacks seriousness of purpose and doesn't appeal to the intellect.
High Comedy: Pure or serious comedy—appeals to the intellect. Social
Burlesque: Form of comedy characterized by ridiculous exaggeration and distortion.
Farce: A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot, exaggerated character, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect.
Lampoon: A broad satirical piece that uses ridicule to attack a person or group
Parody: A composition imitating or burlesquing another, usually serious, piece of work. i.e. caricature.
Satire: Holding up to ridicule the follies and vices of a people or time
Slapstick: Boisterous form of comedy marked by chases, collisions, and crude practical jokes
Travesty: Presents a serious (often religious) subject frivolously.
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Litotes: A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite.
Malapropism: An inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it.
Non-sequitur: Inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premise or evidence.
Oxymoron: A group of apparently contradictory terms suggesting a paradox
Paradox: A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but contains some degree of truth
Parody: A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
Pun (Zeugma): A play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings
Sarcasm: An exaggerated form of verbal irony; bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. The term came from the Greek word “sarkazein” which means “to tear flesh.”
Stereotyping: A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
Understatement: when the literal sense of what is said falls detectably short of he magnitude of what is being said
Wit: This term has more specific uses in Renaissance and 17th century, but for modern works it generally refers to clever uses of language to provoke laughter
Colloquialism: Use of slang or informal language—includes regional dialect
Deflation: An object either assumes elevated status and then is treated such that estimation of the object decreases.
Disparagement: To speak of in a slighting way; belittle; reduce in rank or esteem
Euphemism: a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept
Hyperbole: Exaggeration or overstatement.
Incongruity: A surprising contrast occurring through situation, image, allusion, character, diction...
Invective: Harsh, abusive language directed against a person or cause
Irony: And we've done this a thousand times.
Different Types of Comedy
Comedy of Ideas
· Characters argue about ideas like politics, religion, sex, marriage;
· Characters use their wit and their clever language to mock their opponent in an argument;
· Subtle way to satirize people and institutions like political parties, governments, religion and such.
Comedy of Manners
· affairs of the upper classes
· Focus on witty language, clever speech;
· Society is often made up of cliques that are exclusive with certain groups as the in-crowd.
Farce
· Plot is full of coincidences, mistimings, mistaken identities;
· Characters are puppets of fate
Low Comedy
· Dirty jokes, dirty gestures, sex and elimination are subjects of the humor;
· Slapstick, pratfalls, loud noises, physical mishap
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