Film as Literature Comedy Quiz

Comedy generally does all of the following EXCEPT

• exposes hidden societal prejudices

• pokes fun at onerous authorities and institutions

• maintain a serious tone

• allows us to criticize what’s wrong with our culture without putting us at risk

A film that imitates the style of a writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

• Slapstick

• Parody

• Meet Cute

• Dark Comedy

A fast paced film using buffoonery and horseplay and typically includes crude representations of individuals or groups of people in ridiculous/unlikely situation, and lots reversals of expectations.

• Farce

• Parody

• Screwball Comedy

• Satire

A “slice-of-life” piece that maintains a lighthearted tone that focuses on elements of popular romantic ideas like “true love” that typically end with well matched partners being united or reunited.

• Satire

• Parody

• Farce

• Romantic Comedy

A film in which the shortcomings, transgressions, etc. of an individual or a group are presented in a exaggerated manner typically with a comic tone.

• Slapstick

• Mockumentary

• Satire

• Meet Cute

Uses socially uncomfortable situations or behavior to make the audience “cringe,” but for comic effect.

• Farce

• Romantic Comedy

• Cringe Comedy

• Satire

A Film that take presents itself as a serious documentary, but is actually a satirical piece on that subject.

• Farce

• Slapstick

• Mockumentary

• Screwball Comedy

A comedy that deals with normally taboo subjects, including, death, murder, suicide and war, in a satirical manner

• Dark Comedy

• Screwball Comedy

• Satire

• Parody

When a film uses physical comedy gags

• Dark Comedy

• Parody

• Slapstick

• Mockumentary

When the two protagonists meet, but their personalities clash. This is what most of the comedic elements in Romantic Comedy are grounded in as the story progresses.

• Slapstick

• Satire

• "Meet Cute"

• Denouement