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  2. Caricature - Wikipedia

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    Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm (1896), taken from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary ...

  3. Zeugma and syllepsis - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical syllepsis (sometimes also called zeugma): where a single word is used in relation to two parts of a sentence although grammatically or logically applying to only one. [2] [5] By definition, grammatical syllepsis will often be grammatically "incorrect" according to traditional grammatical rules. However, such solecisms are sometimes ...

  4. Category:Caricature - Wikipedia

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    A caricature is a humorous illustration that exaggerates or distorts the basic essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. According to the Indian cartoonist S. Jithesh , caricature is the satirical illustration of a person but a cartoon is the satirical illustration of an idea.

  5. Exaggeration - Wikipedia

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    In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others. [ 16 ] Slapstick is the recourse to humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of common sense.

  6. Characters and Caricaturas - Wikipedia

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    Though Hogarth claimed in the inscription to The Bench that "there are hardly any two things more different" than character and caricature, modern commentators suggest that his division of the category of comic portraiture, if not artificial, was at least innovative: Hogarth invented the categories merely to be able to place himself in a line ...

  7. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Adianoeta – a phrase carrying two meanings: an obvious meaning and a second, more subtle and ingenious one (more commonly known as double entendre). Alliteration – the use of a series of two or more words beginning with the same letter. Amphiboly – a sentence that may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous structure.

  8. Caricature (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others Caricature or Caricatures may also refer to: Caricature (Daniel Clowes collection) , a 1998 book collection of nine comic short stories by Daniel Clowes

  9. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    The theory treats on equal footing the humorous effect created by the linguistic means (verbal humor), as well as created visually (caricature, clown performance) or by tickling. The theory explains the natural differences in susceptibility of people to humor, the absence of humorous effect from a trite joke, the role of intonation in telling ...