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What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows more than a character does
What is verbal irony?
A difference between what you say and what you actually mean
What is situational irony?
A difference between what you expect and what actually happens
A weatherman comments on the stormy weather, saying "It's a beauty out there."
Verbal irony
Difference between sarcasm and verbal irony
Sarcasm is verbal irony meant to ridicule or mock
Physical comedy, such as a character falling on a banana peel is called...
Slapstick
A statement that presents something as better or worse than it really is
Hyperbole
I told her a million times to turn down her music is an example of...
Hyperbole
Humor that involves two meanings of a word
Pun
First Person: “My dog has no nose.” Second Person: “How does he smell?” First Person: “Awful!”
Pun
A scene in a horror movie in which the killer is hiding in a closet and the character goes to open the door...
Dramatic irony
Making something seem less important than it really is
Understatement
What is satire?
Use of humor to ridicule or criticize vice or folly
What is vice?
Immoral behavior
A short personal story
Anecdote
Anachronism
A thing belonging to a different time period than that in which it is set
