Sarcasm & Wit

¨Sarcasm is a literary and rhetorical device that is meant to mock with often satirical or ironic remarks with a purpose to amuse and hurt someone or some section of society simultaneously.

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Deadpan sarcasm is sarcasm that...

• is delivered in an unnatural happy mood that it makes the speaker look like he has gone crazy
• relies mainly on exaggeration and violent threats.
•  is expressed without emotion or laughter making it difficult for the listener to judge whether the speaker is joking or mocking
• ¨makes people feel like punching the speaker in the face. It is not very funny and it gets under your skin.

"I work 40 hours a week to be this poor" is an example of wit

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Wit is used to _________ social foibles and follies of society

• point out
• mock
• hide
• alleviate

Which of these is not an example of wit?

• A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five.
• Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
• I am not young enough to know everything.
• Tell me something I don’t know

Which of these is not an example of sarcasm?

• You don’t say
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
• This is an excellent time for you to become a missing person.
• What he is lacking in intelligence, he more than makes up for in stupidity.

"Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it" is an example of wit

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