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The satirical and farcical element which featured so strongly in Aristophanes' comedies was increasingly abandoned, the de-emphasis of the grotesque—whether in the form of choruses, humour or spectacle—opening the way for greater representation of daily life and the foibles of recognisable character types.
Thalia, muse of comedy, gazing upon a comic mask (detail from Muses' Sarcophagus). Old Comedy is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians. [1]
A paraprosdokian (/ p ær ə p r ɒ s ˈ d oʊ k i ə n /), or par'hyponoian, is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
Example of sarcasm without irony: (frequently attributed to Winston Churchill) After an onlooker comments on one being drunk: "My dear, tomorrow I will be sober, and you will still be ugly!" Example of irony without sarcasm: After a popular teacher apologizes to the class for answering his phone in the other room: "I don't know if we can ...
American writers of the metamodernist and postmodernist movements have made use of tragicomedy and/or gallows humor. A notable example of a metamodernist tragicomedy is David Foster Wallace's 1996 magnum opus, Infinite Jest. Wallace writes of comedic elements of living in a halfway house (i.e. "some people really do look like rodents"), a place ...
Humour portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Greek comedy (3 C, 1 P) S. Greek satire (4 C, 5 P)
The humour derived gets its appeal from the ridiculousness and unlikeliness of the situation. The genre has roots in Surrealism in the arts. [23] Edward Lear, Aged 73 and a Half and His Cat Foss, Aged 16, an 1885 lithograph by Edward Lear. Surreal humour is the effect of illogic and absurdity being used for humorous effect.
Both the concept and the etymology of the word, while being of uncertain origin, appear to stem from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. [4] The 10th-century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia Suda traces the word's earliest roots to the notion of grinning (Ancient Greek: σαίρω, romanized: sairō) in the face of danger, or curling one's lips back at evil.