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DTTA - Group 6

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is meiosis?

a)

author deliberately overstates the obvious

b)

author deliberately understates the obvious

c)

author accidentally reveals the hidden information

d)

audience guessing hidden information

2.

Which is a technique of creating humor ?

a)

understatement

b)

mystery

c)

suspense

d)

tension

3.

Which of the following is stating one thing while meaning another ?

a)

comic irony

b)

hyperbole

c)

satire

d)

dialect

4.

What is not an example of comedic irony?

a)

An aunt continues eating after saying that she is unable to have another bite.

b)

A teacher fails a test >:))

c)

“Oh, hello, John!”

d)

“These shoelaces keep tripping me over. How perfect.”

5.

What are types of the technique comedic irony?

a)

Situational irony

b)

Verbal irony

c)

Dramatic irony

d)

All of the above

6.

Which technique is used when writers use ridicule to point out human folly?

(a)  

7.

What is non-ironic meiosis?

a)

emphasizing exactly the thing being understated

b)

a good way to sound modest/polite

c)

call attention to the way in which a character is modest/polite

d)

the juxtaposition of the literal meaning and the actual meaning

8.

Which of the techniques to create humour in comedic plays are the opposite of each other?

a)

meiosis

b)

hyperbole

c)

comic irony

d)

dialect

e)

satire

9.

What is comedy to me? :)))))))

4 lines
10.

press 2

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

11.

Give an example of a hyperbole ( and make us laugh)

4 lines