comedy Flashcards
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Farce
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Low comedy, physical
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Situational comedy
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Characters and ideas are minor. Hidden id, discoveries.
2
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Malapropism
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Pronouncing words wrong
3
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Incongruity
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Illogical
4
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Melodrama
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Good v evil
5
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Surrealism
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20th century, express truth
6
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Existentialism
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After ww2 philosophical movement where humans live in a meaningless world
7
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Dada
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Anti art
8
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Who wrote satire
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Dario fo and Aristophanes
9
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Who wrote tragicomedy
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Shakespear
10
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Who wrote situational comedy
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Menander
11
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Who wrote comedy of manners
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Moliere
12
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Who wrote romantic comedy
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Chekhov and Pirandello
13
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What are the tools of comedy?
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Surprise contrast and incongruity, exaggeration, obsession, slapstick, transgression, language.
