professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh

• comedy

• medical drama

• drama

• CSI

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter

• joke

• drama

• sarcasm

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

comedy in which the subject and the treatment border on farce

• low comedy

• soliloquy

• paradox

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

comedy employing sophisticated wit and often satirizing the upper classes

• farce

• high comedy

• puns

• incongruity

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a humorous play on words

• aliiteration

• act

• pun

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor

• comedy

• wit

• drama

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events.

• wit

• hyperbole

• slapstick

• stereotyping

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor

• comedy

• funny

• drama

• wit

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

• monologue

• dialogue

• comedy

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A humorous imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing

• A) parody

• B) satire

• C) irony

• D) farce

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6