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**Hyberbole: Very exaggerated statements, obvious sarcasm**
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/24BqhD/blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2011/09/28/conversations_w_kids.jpg/ Exaggerated saying teens don;t have any other type of conversation except in those categories.

**Parody: The use of common and respected structures that contain mocking or uncommon topics.**
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1A2vjY/cdn.dornob.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ikea-funny-instruction-manual.jpg/ This picture is a parody making fun of a popular store call Ikea and the popular movies series star wars, by giving a "step by step" on how to make a light saber, in the ikea instructional manual format.

**Generalization: A basic group of ideas, concepts, information**
http://carlislehistory.dickinson.edu/wp-content/uploads/mz-male_nurse.jpg The general stereotype is that men cannot be nurses because it is not socially acceptable.

**Incongruity: When something is out of place of inappropriate behavior**
"What Child Games Really Taught You: Game: Freeze Tag- when someone hits you stay." This is inappropriate because usually if people hit you you tend to get away from that person not freeze in place.

Inversion/Reversal
When characters or concepts shift positions of power or identification. "That receptionist has all the friendliness of a pit bull"

**WORD PLAY:**

 * Pun: Using a word with more than one meaning in a specific context.**
 * ""Tomorrow you shall find me a grave man." ~Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet**
 * This particular quote has a very brave tone. Even though Romeo means that he will be "a grave man" is his way of stating that he will be "a brave man" however truly the next day he will literally be in the grave. The fact that the tone is brave causes the readers to find humor in the fact that Romeo takes himself very seriously when he tells Mercutio that he is going to be brave enough to take on the world, when in the reality of the story and his life, he will end up being exactly the opposite of a brave night in shining armor the very next day, when he ends up dead. thus, the pun is created.**

Oxymoron: When two words with contrasting ideas are put together to make a new word.
Here is much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O bawling love! O bawling hate! O anything! of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos and well seeming forms. ~Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet The use of oxymoron's in this passage create the confused and complexed tone of Romeo throughout the play of Shakespeare. Shakespeare ulilizes the contrasts of the words in his oxymorons to portray the tone. The fact that the whole purpose of an oxymoron such as "heavy lightness" is to juxtapose the two feelings of something being both heavy and light; fully gives the tone just through those two words.

Double Entendre: when a statement can have more than one meaning.
This video has its double entendre at the beginning in the first 10 seconds, and it is Dane Cook; and he does like the Fbomb:)

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIob7qv6qtE In this video Dane Cook opens his stand up comedy about "Cheating" with a double entendre that he has been cheated on. The double meaning portion comes out when he explains that literally people were cheating on top of him, when first you think he is just saying that someone he was dating cheated on him. The purpose of his use of double entendre (besides just to make a dirty joke) is to create this tone of total exaggeration. This causes it to "break the ice" and make them feel relaxed. Which then allows Dane Cook to continue to make fun of the idea of cheating on people and the repercussions it brings.

DISTORTION: Alteration of shape, concept, person, time, ect.
@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6zNZhB6Lg This very cute Disney Pixar short film, has an overall distortion in the way that the storm cloud's stork/bird is portrayed compared to the other clouds' bird/storks. The storm clouds' one is very thin and fragile, and his color is darker than the other birds. Also progressively throughout the video he decreases in his number of feathers that he has. The distortion of the video creates a sympathetic tone towards the bird, as well as the storm cloud who feels bad that his stork is being destroyed by the creations that he is making. The reason that this tone is so powerful to the viewers is because then in the end when the cloud helps his stork by giving him football pads and reassuring him that everything will be okay, it creates the satifaction of the longing that the viewers have been feeling because of their sympathy for the stork and its cloud.

**Deviation--** To go off topic or off of a path.
user:98.245.74.100 [] In this video clip, it opens to Bill Engvall, sharing his famous "Here's Your Sign" jokes that go through multiple different stories about people that ask a silly question or state the obvious in which he then replies with a sarcastic remark. This is an example of deviation because each one of Bill's jokes is different from the next, appearing that he goes off topic and continues on to tell a different story that is no longer related to the one before it. This is humorous not only because Bill's jokes show true. comical sarcasm but because the multitude of different stories at a time gives the audience something new to hear and to wait for the anticipation of Bill's sarcastic replies to the people in which state the question or statement. "Here's Your Sign" jokes are a fun and humorous type of comedy not usually seen in stand-up comedy acts.

**Caricature--** When one aspect of a person's personality is exaggerated.
user:98.245.74.100 [] This is a picture, or caricature, of the famous actor Jack Nicholson. Many people have seen caricatures before of famous celebrities, athletes, cartoons, or even presidents. Caricatures provide a comical, different view of whomever the caricature is of by focusing on something about them; such as in this picture as it focuses on Jack's famous cocked eyebrows, crazy hair, and that winning smirk. These caricatures provide a fun view of people and put them into a new light of humor as people realize when they look at these that they aren't the only people that notice these outstanding features of the person's personality. Their personality is brought out through these features and by focusing on these features, the person's personality truly "pops".

**Inherently Funny Words--** Words that simply make people laugh.
user:98.245.74.100 Paradiddle. Bumbershoot. Snicker. Jiggle. Periwinkle. Pumpernickel. ~All of the words above are words that you might find within some form of text that might produce a giggle or two when read within the context it is used. These words are fun and comical when used within text because they add humor to the text simply because of the pronunciation of the word and how it might be used within the text. Either these words will add slight humor to the text or can add much more than that, it all depends on how they are used! Below is a website with many more words: []

**Riddles--** A puzzling statement or question.
user:98.245.74.100 "I'm a father's child, and I'm a mother's child, but no one's son. Who am I?" ~Riddles are good to work the brain and to have fun! Using riddles in text can provide humor and fun for the reader or for an audience because it gives the reader/audience something not only to think about but to be playful with and to make guesses about. Riddles can turn out to be really comical most of the time and are often seen within comics and text of that sort.

**Bathos--** An abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
user:98.245.74.100 [] In the clip above from SNL, this is an example of bathos in comedy. The parody that SNL does of the famous Kim Kardashian wedding shows bathos in that is takes the actual event and makes it into something comical and a little absurd as they continue to mock the Kardashian family and make a scene of the wedding and the divorce that soon followed. This is comical and mocking in the way that the SNL crew presents it and the main idea behind the story that was absurd anyways. There is humor within the script and how the crew went about to make what happened seem light and humorous, as SNL usually does while also taking the situations and producing a "ludicrous" effect out of them.