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Comedy Vocabulary

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

Comedy Vocabulary
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

comedy

medical drama

drama

CSI

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter

joke

drama

sarcasm

soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

comedy in which the subject and the treatment border on farce

low comedy

soliloquy

paradox

irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

comedy employing sophisticated wit and often satirizing the upper classes

farce

high comedy

puns

incongruity

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

a humorous play on words

aliiteration

act

pun

soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

comedy

wit

drama

paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events.

wit

hyperbole

slapstick

stereotyping

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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