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| Don't want to be believed: you want to upset the person. |
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| You don't want to be believed: you want the other person to share a feeling of amusement. |
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| form of humor where the writer or speaker tries to make the reader or listener have a negative opinion about someone, by laughing at them, making them seem ridiculous or foolish, etc. If someone is being satirical, their aim is not to just to amuse, but to affect the person that they dislike; to hurt them, ruin them, correct them, etc. |
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| an imitation of a person, subject, or style which, by ridiculous exaggeration or distortion, aims to amuse. The quality which characterizes this technique is a descrepancy between the subject matter and the style in which it is treated. EX: a frivolous subject may be treated with mock dignity, or conversely, a weighty subject might be handled in a trivial style. |
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| figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used in a sense contrary to its conventional meaning for ironic or humourous effect. EX: "I was awakened by the dulcet tones of Frank, the morning doorman, alternately yelling my name, ringing my doorbell, and pounding on my apartment door." (Frank's yellings isn't "dulcet") |
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| An occasion in which the outcome is significantly different from what was expected or considered appropriate. EX: a man who takes a step aside in order to avoid getting sprinkled by a wet dog and falls into a swimming pool |
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| effect produced by a narrative in which the audience knows more about present or future circumstances than a character in the story. |
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| type of low comedy involving physical action EX: slip on the bannana peel |
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| a play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or souond of different words. (the really bad jokes) Ex: a horse walks into a bar--->why the long face? |
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| hint or insinuation, usually critical and often improper and/or sexual in nature. EX: "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?" |
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| figure of speech in which a word or phrase can be understood in two ways, especially when on meaning is risque |
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| differs from most other types of comedy because it often as disturbing as it is funny. Black humor violates sacred and secular taboos alike without restraint or compunction. It discorvers cause for laughter in what has generally been regarded as too serious for frivolity |
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(nonsense or surrealist humor)
relies on some sort of violation of causal reasoning, or presents illogical events or reactions. EX: Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" |
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| visual art or descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates certain features of a subject to create a comic or absurd effect |
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| absurd or humouous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with on of similar sound EX: the bondage between mother and child rather than the BOND between mother and child |
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