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| 8884208350 | Absurdity | A state of being rediculas or wildly unreasonable | 0 | |
| 8884208351 | Bathos | When a writer or a poet falls into inconsequential and absurd metaphors, descriptions or ideas in an effort to be increasinly emotional or passionate | 1 | |
| 8884208352 | Black humor | a comic style that makes light of subjects that are generally considered serious or taboo (death for example) | 2 | |
| 8884208353 | Caricature | A character with features or traits that are exagerated so that the character seems rediculas (both written and illustrative) | 3 | |
| 8884208354 | Comic juxtaposition | linking together with no commentary items which normally do not go together | 4 | |
| 8884208355 | Dimunition | a satirical technique reducing the size of something in order that it may be made to appear ludicrous or in order to be closely examined | 5 | |
| 8884208356 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 6 | |
| 8884208357 | Farce | A dramaticform marked wholly absurd situations, slapstick, raucous wordplay, and sometimes innuendo | 7 | |
| 8884208358 | Horatian Satire | satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty--relatively gentle | 8 | |
| 8884208359 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech which involves the exageration of ideas for the sake of emphasis | 9 | |
| 8884208360 | Inflation | a common technique of sature where real life situations are exagerrated to a degree that it becomes rediculas and its faults can be seen | 10 | |
| 8884208361 | Innuendo | an indirect or a subtle observation about a thing or a person;--usually it is critical, disparaging or salacious in nature | 11 | |
| 8884208362 | Invective | speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution--uses abrasive and negative language | 12 | |
| 8884208363 | Dramatic Irony | Tension created by the contrast between what a character says or thinks and what the audience or readers know to be true; as a result of this technique, some words and actions in a story or play take on a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters | 13 | |
| 8884208364 | Situational Irony | A pointed discrepancy between what seems fitting or expected in a story and what actually happens | 14 | |
| 8884208365 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech that occus when a speaker of character says one things but really means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected, creating a noticable incongruity | 15 | |
| 8884208366 | Juvenalian Satire | formal satire in which the speaker attacks vice and error with contempt and indignation | 16 | |
| 8884208367 | Malapropism | a use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression | 17 | |
| 8884208368 | Mock encomium | Praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead | 18 | |
| 8884208369 | Oxymoron | A paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words | 19 | |
| 8884208370 | Parody | A comic or satiric imitation of a particular literary work or style. They range from light hearted imitations to exagerations intended to criticize | 20 | |
| 8884208371 | Pun | A play on words that derives its humor from the replacement of one word with another that has a similar pronuncation or spelling but a different meaning--this also can be driven by multiple meaning words | 21 | |
| 8884208372 | Purple Prose | prose that is too elaborate or ornate | 22 | |
| 8884208373 | Reductio ad absurdum | a manner of arguing something in which one argues for his position by showing the absurdity of the position of his opponent--to reduce an argument to absurdity by drawing the conclusions with logical limits or showing rediculas consequences | 23 | |
| 8884208374 | Sarcasm | verbal irony that is used derisively | 24 | |
| 8884208375 | Satire | A literary work that uses irony to critique society or an individual | 25 | |
| 8884208376 | Understatement | The presentation or framing of something as less important, urgent, aweful, good, powerful, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect (opposite of hyperbole) | 26 | |
| 8884208377 | Utopianism | an illusionary place that projects the notion of a perfect society to the reader, where ideal conditions are achieved in the material wold and morality is upheld | 27 | |
| 8884208378 | Wit | a form of intelligent humor, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usualy funny | 28 | |
| 8884208379 | Bathos | An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or rediculas | 29 |
