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AP Language 2011-2012

Humor Dictionaries Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Period 6

SAMPLE:

Understatement (litotes)



The tone of the father is facetious; the child, resigned. The overall tone, however, is playfully mocking.

How is this funny? The exaggeratio nof the amount of homework, through the van overflowing with books an dpapers, an dthe exhausted child's understated acknowledgement of a "little [homework] creates humor. The ridiculousness of a conveyor belt shuttling the homework upstairs exaggerates the idea children today have too much homework.


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