Introduction to Comedy

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Incongurity
Things are inappropriate
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Subversion
Undermining conentions or power
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Lack of seriousness
Not taking things seriously
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Lack of self-knowledge
being aware of oneself
4 of 22
Word play
Playing with words, or multiple words
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Characterisation
Creating characters
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Mitaken identity
Mistakibng one character for another
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Wit
Intelligent humour
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Juxtaposition
Two directly opposite words put together, e.g. 'fire on ice'
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Farce
Improbable situation becomes clown like
10 of 22
Satire
Using comedy to make a point about society
11 of 22
Folly
Foolish behaviour/ humour
12 of 22
Slapstick
Physical comedy
13 of 22
Caricature
Characters that are over-exaggerated
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Dark Humour
Making jokes out of something that is dark
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Apathy
Enthusiam
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Deadpan
Total expressioness
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Misunderstanding
Failure of understanding something
18 of 22
Irony
Way you use language to show the opposite meaning
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Embarrassment
Emotions thats causes shame/ self-consciousness
20 of 22
Surrealism
Illogical behaviour
21 of 22
Sarcasm
The use of irony to mock
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Card 2

Front

Subversion

Back

Undermining conentions or power

Card 3

Front

Lack of seriousness

Back

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Card 4

Front

Lack of self-knowledge

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Word play

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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