the+yellow-bellied+poets

**Hyperbole:** Exaggerated statements or not meant to be taken seriously.
This is a video featuring comedian Demetri Martin, I find him really funny, I recommend watching all six parts on Youtube, but for the purpose of this assignment, watch from this link:

//[|Demetri Martin part one]//
More specifically, **2:30 - 3:00** Tone: alluring, interesting, contemplative, Martin makes an exaggeration while providing his audience with an example of an "if " statement, the theme of his show. Instead of providing a regular sentence, he decides to make one that can portray a sense of absurdity, make his audience laugh at its irrationality, thus a perfect hyperbole.

**Deviation:** To go off topic or off path.
This is another segment from Demetri Martin:

//[|Demitri Martin part three]//
More specifically, **5:20 -7:00** Tone: Matter-of-fact, comical Martin jumps from one topic to another, incessantly creating new scenarios for the audience to construe in their minds. He goes from heart attacks to fruit to his life as a law student, and the audience can't seem to connect all this to one specific theme until the Martin does it for them and it all makes sense. This deviation can rear off path for a long time, but Martin always comes back on topic and goes off again to make another point. This keeps the audience listening and their attention, because there are always new things for Martin to talk about that they might just miss if they decide to fall asleep so they don't.

**Double Entrendre:** When a statement could have more then one meaning.
Yet another segment from Demetri Martin's show:

//[|Demetri Martin part two]//
More specifically, **7:00 - 8:20** Tone: convincing, mocking Martin uses the phrase " I'm the only guy on a unicycle" two different times, but in two different contexts, one positive and one negative. This is funny, because it allows the audience to acknowledge the different perspectives different people can take through just one phrase, the generalizations against those you can ride unicycles or decide to do so in society. Saying it two different times in two different tones (ecstatic and then confused) affect the audience in two completely different ways.

**Bathos:** an abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the common place; anticlimax.


This title of this piece is called //“The ultimate climax”//. As the audience reads from left to right, and, at the same time, absorbs the image with their peripheral vision, they cannot help but feel the hopeful, ecstatic, and optimistic tone of the comic as the male dictates, “Will you marry me”. But, upon reading “Yes, if…”, the tone of the piece abruptly shifts to one of embarrassment, pity, and shame. The female is not accepting the man’s proposal solely for the sake of love, but for a specific set of conditions. The audience can only imitate the drastic shift with their own reaction towards the image which ultimately results in a sudden laughter. Where there is embarrassment, there is often laughter among the spectators.

Tone: optimistic, ecstatic, hopeful **//transitions to//** pitiful, embarrassment, comical.

**Generalization: A basic group of ideas, concepts, information.**
This is a YouTube clip started a YouTube trend of stereotypes on what certain groups of people say. Other than the title itself. Its rated PG.

[|S**t Girls Say] Tone: Mocking, Comical While the things in this video on their own may not be humorous, the video as a whole is humorous because the audience views the stereotypes in a person way. Women view it as humorous, because they are being mocked, knowing that they have either said those phrases once, or decided to do so even daily. The men find this video humorous because first hand they hear women say these things constantly, adding a personal feel.

**Parody: The use of a common and respected structures that contain mocking or uncommon topics.**
This next video is a clip from the movie "Scary Movie" which is a parody movie that makes fun of modern culture and popular movies. Rated PG-13.

[|Movie Scene] Tone: Comical, Mocking, Sarcastic, Facetious The video clip takes a very serious subject (being stalked by a killer) and completely turns it juvenile and the subject can no longer be taken seriously. The audience is taken aback with obscenity and physical mishap, but cannot help but laugh as the killer struggles to find a hiding place, the girl cooperating with the killer and the girl shoving her grandma and piano down countless number of stairs at the killer.

**Pun: Using a word with more than one meaning in a specific context.**
A website I found that contains a lot of PUNNY jokes. Rated G.

[|Pun-of-the-Day] Tone: Sarcastic, Mocking, Irreverent This pun specifically is a play on words with multiple allusions as well that add to the humor. The word being played with is 'raving' which has been replaced with the word 'raven'. This alludes to one of Poe's most populat poems 'The Raven' which leaves the audience with at least a chuck due to the Verbal Wit.

===**Caricature: When one aspect of a person's personality is exaggerated.**=== This is a picture of a famous celebrity known for a certain aspect that has been greatly exaggerated Rated G.

An obvious exaggeration. Angelina Jolie is well-known for having big lips and the fact that this picture plays on something they all know about gives and adds humor to what may seem sometimes, how everyone views her lips.



Surprise: When something is unexpected.
The Simpsons: Tweenlight

In this clip from the Simpsons' parody of Twilight, Milhouse just found out that Lisa had fallen for the vampire Edmund. Milhouse is loosely based on the character Jacob from Twilight, a boy who can turn into a werewolf when experiencing strong emotions such as anger. The surprise is exemplified in this clip when the audience expects Milhouse to transform into a werewolf, a very masculine an fierce creature, but instead the audience receives a very feminine-looking poodle. This element of surprise makes the audience chuckle. Milhouse's transformation into a poodle complete with a pink umbrella is also incredibly ridiculous, and portrays absurdity, which is an element of humor in this clip that also makes the audience laugh. Milhouse's tone in this clip is outraged, but the clip itself has a playfully mocking tone.

Understatement: When the author does not explain or relay the full magnitude of the situation.
The Simpsons: Texting

The understatement depicted in this clip of Homer flying a blimp while texting portrays the very obvious dangers of texting while also using absurdity to somehow make Homer's almost-crashes seem "okay", with Homer's leisurely tone of carelessness. The overall tone of this clip, however, while making the audience laugh at the crazy ways that Homer avoids killing himself, is more satirical--while not outright explaining that texting while driving is dangerous, that is exactly the idea the writer of the clip is trying to depict, by mocking the carelessness of most Americans who think texting while driving is no big deal; that they will miraculously survive any dangerous situation.

Incongruity: when something is out of place or inappropriate behavior.
SNL: Gilly

The clip of young troublemaker Gilly exemplifies incongruity in Gilly's inappropriate response to her absurd deviance. Her lack of embarrassment and relentless "bad behavior" is not a normal response to being caught doing something as awful and dangerous as shooting people or sticking pencils in people's heads--this incongruity and understatement creates something the audience can laugh at. Gilly's tone in this clip is indifferent to her actions, which does not make sense in this situation. The overall tone of the clip is ridiculous and playful, despite the occurrences in the clip.