English Lit

Tragedy
- rational
- moral
- logical
- death
- punishment
- pity/fear
- realism
Comedy
- irrational
- immoral
- discontinuous
- laughter
- fallible language
- irony
How comedy affects people
- based on irony
- intellectual process
- gets rid of emotional responses
- need for change
- character is blind
- comparison between reader and character
Caricature

features exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect
Dflation

an object either assumes an elevated status then treated like the object decrease
Disparagement

to belittle
Knaves & Fools
- knave: rogues
- fools: suckers
- expose each other
Low Comedy

little intellectual appeal
High Comedy

appeals to intellect
Burlesque

ridiculous exaggeration and distortion
Farce
- highly improbable plot
- exaggerated character
- slapstick elements
Lampoon
- broad satirical piece
- ridicule used to attack a person/group
Satire

holding up to ridicule the follies and vices of people/time
Slapstick
- boisterous
- chases, collisions, and crude pratical jokes
Travesty
- serious subject frivolously
- often religious
- reduces everything to lowest level
Levels of comedy
- Farce (low)
- obscenity
- physical mishap
- plot devices
- verbal mt
- inconsistencies of charater
- comedy of satire (high)
Comedy of Ideas

politics, rligion, sex, marriage
Comedy of manners
- love affairs among upper classes
- clever speech
- in-crowds

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English Lit

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Updated

2011-09-16T03:04:16Z

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