4248035344 | Slapstick | A type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which may the boundaries of common sense | 0 | |
4248035345 | Wit | Is a form of intellectual humor, and a wit js someone skilled in making sharp humerous remarks | 1 | |
4248035346 | Farce | Comic dramatic worth that uses highly importable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and sometimes violent horseplay | 2 | |
4248035347 | Bawdy | Humorously course; risqué, vulgar, lewd containing reference to sex, especially to be humorous characterized by obscenity or indecency | 3 | |
4248035348 | Juxtaposition | Placing dissimilar items, descriptions or ideas close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast | 4 | |
4248035349 | Incongruity | To present ideas that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surrounding | 5 | |
4248035350 | Exaggeration | To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen | 6 | |
4248035351 | Bathos | (especially in a work of literature) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous. | 7 | |
4248035352 | Parody | A humorously exaggerated imitation of a writer, artist or genre | 8 | |
4248035353 | Malapropism | Unintentional misuse of words | 9 | |
4248035354 | Pun | Intentional play on words | 10 | |
4248035355 | Sarcasm | Speaking the opposite of what is meant | 11 | |
4252811027 | Reversal | To present the opposite of the normal. | 12 |
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