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 * Deviation: To go off topic or path. The tone of deviation is usually casual and thoughtless, as the comedian often bounces from one topic to another. It's funny because the comedian rants about random things, creating a shock-effect on theh audience.**
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*Caricature: When one aspect of a person's looksor personality is exagerated. The tone of this humor can be playfully mocking, or even downright mean depending on the creator. It's funny because the saturist takes a personal characteristic or flaw, and stretchesit way beyond reasonable reality, leaving the reader laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation' Example:(PG-13) []

***Inherently funny words: Words that make people laugh. The tone of this humor is simple and immature. These words are often funny because of their inapropriate or obscene meaning.**
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*Riddles: A puzzling question or statement. The tone of this is usually curious, and is meant to make the reader think. Example: It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

***Bathos: is an abrupt transition in style from the exhaulted to to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. The tone of this humor is wild, outrageous, and tends to creat shock value. Some people might be offended by bathos, but it generally gets some laughs by shocking the audience.**
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 * Understatement **


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 * The tone of the woman in the cartoon is relaxed and sincere. The tone of the man is scared and serious. The overall piece is playful. The cartoon achieves its humor by using “uptight” which clearly is much too calm of a word for the man’s situation.**


 * Surprise **
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 * The tone of this video is surprising and amusing. The piece achieves a sense of humor by completely surprising the viewer with a moonwalking man after believing that they were just watching a movie about skateboarding. The complete shock causes the viewer to laugh.**


 * Pun **
 * The tone of this cartoon is lighthearted. The artist achieves the amusing level of humor by playing with the idea that vacuums actually suck air to clean messes, not that vacuums suck in the sense that they do not work well.**

**http://listsoplenty.com/pix/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/vacuum-pun.jpg** **The witty tone in this drawing is created by clever wordplay. The woman’s reflection is on a glass bottle with the words “1 Gal” on it. The meaning of gal, originally meant to be “gallon” is bent to mean on gal as in the colloquial form of gal.**
 * Double Entendre **

//**Hyperbole: Very exaggerated statements, obvious sarcasm** // **Example:**

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 * The song uses a hyperbole because Christina Perri uses the exaggeration, "I'll love you for a thousand years", yet it is completely impossible for that to happen because people do not live for a thousand years. She uses the exaggeration to convey her intense feelings towards her lover. **

//**Parody: The use of common and respected structures that contain mocking or uncommon topics **//
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[] **This is a parody of the song Love the Way You Lie by Rihanna and Eminem. Key of Awesome makes parodies of songs and they make fun of Rihanna and Eminem by dressing like them and singing like them. It is funny because they remake the song with a child-like spin on it.**

//**Generalization: A basic group of ideas, concepts, information** // **Example: PG-13**

**http://www.explosm.net/comics/901/**

**The tone of the comic is playfully mocking. The comic implies that all people that wear black are emo. The comic is funny because the "emo" guy is actually Amish.**

//**Incongruity: When something is out of place or inappropriate behavior **//
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**http://www.explosm.net/comics/898/**

** The tone of this illusion is amusing yet confusing. The image originally appears to be one of a building but after a closer look the viewer realizes that it is architecturally impossible. The play on perspective and combination of the orginal 'just a building' thought with the realization of the impossibility intrigues the **
 * The tone of the comic shifts from tense to playful. The scene begins as a very serious moment with guns but the two on the left only have water guns. This is inappropriate because in a gun fight one does not bring a fake gun. It is funny because it is supposed to ease the tension. **
 *  Inversion/Reversal: The reversal of commonly expected roles. **
 * example: Family Guy- [|Married to a Child] PG13 **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The tone of this clip is facetious and comical because of the playful reversal of roles. It is funny because fathers are normally thought to be mature and nurturing towards their children while here the father is self-centered and childish towards girls. The reader finds the reversal humorous because it is unexpected and yet there are parts of this that are true in real life- some parents are less responsible than their children. **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Absurdity: Something that is clearly illogical or wrong. **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">example: [|SNL- Tebow Meets Jesus] **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The tone of this skit is facetiously irreverent towards Tim Tebow and the role of Christianity in football. The absurd idea of Jesus "praying to Prater" is obviously wrong. The skit also mocks Tebow's skills by pointing out that the Broncos have only won in the fourth quarter, the only time Jesus was guiding them. This skit creates an absurd view of Jesus who speaks as if he is annoyed with the team, especially his most devout followerer Tebow, contradicting most common beliefs that he is everywhere and caring.[[image:http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/sde/lowres/sden770l.jpg width="269" height="311" align="right"]] **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Oxymoron: When two words/objects are combined to produce a seemingly **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">self-contradictory effect. **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This comic's tone is ironic because of the juxtaposition of "deficit" and "spending", two contradictory words. The comic is humorous because the currrent attempts to get rid of the country's deficit involve spending more money. Readers can resignate with the mockery of the government's futile tries at improving the economy because he/she often witnesses these attempts first hand. **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Distortion: Alteration of shape, concept, person, or time. **
 * viewer to further deconstruct the image. **