Vocab Flashcards
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Farce
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a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and typically involving crude characterisation and ludicrously improbably situations
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Paradox
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a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove ot be well founded or true
3
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Satire
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the use of humour, irony, exaggerations or ridicule to expose or criticise people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of politics
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Contrast
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the state of being strikingly different from something else in close association
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Incongruous
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Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something
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Anachronistic
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Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed
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Hyperbole
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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be take literally
