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Humor Devices

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  • What is satire?
    Use of humor to ridicule or criticize vice or folly
  • Difference between sarcasm and verbal irony
    Sarcasm is verbal irony meant to ridicule or mock
  • What is situational irony?
    A difference between what you expect and what actually happens
  • Contrast by putting two opposite things next to each other
    Juxtaposition
  • A weatherman comments on the stormy weather, saying "It's a beauty out there."
    Verbal irony
  • Humor that involves two meanings of a word
    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
  • I told her a million times to turn down her music is an example of...
    Hyperbole
  • Making something seem less important than it really is
    Understatement
  • First Person: “My dog has no nose.” Second Person: “How does he smell?” First Person: “Awful!”
    Pun
  • What is dramatic irony?
    When the audience knows more than a character does
  • Anachronism
    A thing belonging to a different time period than that in which it is set
  • Physical comedy, such as a character falling on a banana peel is called...
    Slapstick
  • Substituting a potentially offensive word with another word or phrase
    Euphemism
  • A short personal story
    Anecdote
  • What is verbal irony?
    A difference between what you say and what you actually mean
  • Copying another work or author's style
    Parody
  • A statement that presents something as better or worse than it really is
    Hyperbole
  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness
    Juxtaposition
  • What is vice?
    Immoral behavior
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