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| 274989193 | Travesty | presents a serious, often religious, subject frivolously it reduces it to its lowest level. Presenting a subject in a dress intended for another type of subject. | |
| 274989194 | Burlesque | ridiculous exaggeration achieved through a variety of ways. Ex. the sublime may be absurd, honest emotions turned to sentimentality. Style is the essential quality in this term. | |
| 274989195 | Parody | a person imitating or burlesquing another, usually serious piec of work. | |
| 274989196 | Farce | exciting laughter through exaggerated, improvable situations. low comedy- quarreling, fighting, slap-stick, drunkenness etc. | |
| 274989197 | Invective | harsh, abusive language directed against a person or cause (bitterest of all satire) | |
| 274989198 | knaves and fools | in comedy there are no innocent victims nor villains. Instead there are rogues and suckers. | |
| 274989199 | Malapropism | a deliberate mispronunciation of a name or term with the intent of poking fun | |
| 274989200 | Lampoon | a crude, coarse, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person | |
| 274989201 | Wit | denotes a kind of verbal expression which is brief, deft, and intentionally contrived to produce a shock of comic surprise. (Intended by the speaker to be comic) | |
| 274989202 | Humor | as a term applies to comic modes of appearances and behavior as well as comic utterances, in contrast to wit which refers Only to the written and spoken word. (found in speeches the speaker intends to be serious) | |
| 274989203 | Folly | a lack of good sense, understanding or foresight | |
| 274989204 | Vice | a fault, an error, an imperfection in one's character | |
| 274989205 | Dry | lacking interest or stimulation; not wet | |
| 274989206 | feeble | lacking strength or vigor | |
| 274989207 | dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion | |
| 274989208 | nonchalant | cool and confident, unconcerned | |
| 274989209 | wary | Cautious | |
| 274989210 | candid | characterized by directness in manner or speech; frank | |
| 274989211 | didactic | intended to instruct | |
| 274989212 | motile | moving or capable of moving spontaneously | |
| 274989213 | boisterous | rough; noisy | |
| 274989214 | panacea | cure-all; ancient Greek goddess | |
| 274989215 | verbose | wordy, very talkative | |
| 274989216 | abrupt | happening suddenly, without warning | |
| 274989217 | lucid | easy to understand, clear; rational, sane | |
| 274989218 | polished | perfected or made shiny and smooth; cultured and elegant | |
| 274989219 | prosaic | commonplace, uninspired, banal | |
| 274989220 | blasé | indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures; apathetic | |
| 274989221 | meditative | given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative. | |
| 274989222 | ideal | a conception of something in its most perfect form | |
| 274989223 | vigorous | full of strength and energy or vitality | |
| 274989224 | sensual | pertaining to the body or the physical senses. | |
| 274989225 | sprightly | lively | |
| 274989226 | amiable | friendly, pleasant, likable | |
| 274989227 | turgid | swollen, pompous | |
| 274989228 | glib | (adj.) ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless, insincere | |
| 274989229 | inscrutable | difficult to understand; mysterious | |
| 274989230 | comma splice | using a comma incorrectly to join two sentences. Ex. Mary walked home, she missed her ride. (There should be a semicolon or a comma with a conjunction between the two sentences.) | |
| 274989231 | run on | two sentences joined without punctuation or a connecting word | |
| 274989232 | fragment | An incomplete thought | |
| 274989233 | Hyperbaton | separation of words which belong together, often to emphasize the first of the separated words or to create a certain image. | |
| 274989234 | Apposition | a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation. John Smith, a great person, blah blah bla | |
| 274989235 | Verisimilitude | the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable | |
| 274989236 | Synechdoche | when a part is used to signify a whole, "all hands on deck" | |
| 274989237 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ("The pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war/fighting].") | |
| 274989238 | Antimetabole | Repitition of words in succussive clauses in reverse grammatical order ("You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.") | |
| 274989239 | Zeugma | The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. He closed the door and his heart on his lost love. | |
| 274989240 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | |
| 274989241 | Elliptical sentence | Sentence structure that leaves out something. If rainy, bring an umbrella. (The words "it is" and "you" are left out - If it is rainy, you bring an umbrella.) Fire when ready. (The words "you are" are understood - Fire when you are ready.) | |
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