These are directly out of my notes:

Understatement: taking a major/serious topic and making it seem non-important

Lampoon: full-length verbal portrait of a person which ridicules him/her in a biting manner (harsh)

Invective: direct denunciation or name calling (harsh)

Diatribe: prolonged invective; bitter and abusive speech or writing (harsh)

Caricature: a type of portrait, graphic or verbal, which exaggerates or distorts prominent features of a person without losing the likeness

Irony: the 3 types (situational, dramatic, verbal)..we learned these last unit

Sarcasm: caustic and heavy use of apparent praise for acutal dispraise

Parody: a close imitation of an author's style or work for comic effect or ridicule

Burlesque: High:treats an unimportant subject seriously
Low: treats an important subject in a comic/low manner. I think this is basically understatement.

Miosis (is that right?): Mr Feuer descirbed it as low burlesque/understatement, but with semi-sarcasm. Ex: Shakespeare was a pretty-good writer.

slapstick: broad comedy characterized by violently boisterous actions. This can be phyisical or verbal. Verbal example: the skit, "Who's on first.?"
Well... Mr. Feuer said there was, so there must be.
Do you know that skit...the one about Who's on first?

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml

That's slapstick. Syrus is pretty good at it.

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