comic elements
What brings laughs
Comic elements are the features that create humor in a work—funny dialogue, absurd situations, mistaken identities, physical gags, ironic timing.
The term appears most often in literary or dramatic analysis: The play's comic elements provide relief from its darker themes.
A tragedy may contain comic elements without becoming a comedy.
- sitcomEpisodic TV comedy series
- punWordplay using double meanings
- clownComedic performer in makeup
- misunderstandingFailure to grasp meaning
- satireMockery exposing vice
farce · irony · exaggeration · straight man · double take · wordplay · taboo-breaking · absurdity · human folly · trickster · slapstick · pratfall · timing · punch line · awkwardness · fool · funny bone · mockumentary
comic elementstragic elements
Components producing dramatic sorrow
tragedy · tragic scenes · pathos · catastrophe · tragic conflict
comic elementsgravitas
Dignified, weighty manner
dark undertones · melancholy · bleakness · solemnity · emotional depth
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