comic fiction
Funny made-up stories
Comic fiction is literature intended primarily to amuse—novels, stories, or plays built around humor rather than drama or tragedy.
The genre ranges from light farce to satirical wit: P.G. Wodehouse's comic fiction follows a bumbling aristocrat and his unflappable valet.
Distinguished from fiction that merely contains humor by making comedy its central purpose.
- exaggerationOverstating beyond reality
- tall taleWildly exaggerated story
- societal critiqueEvaluation of civilization's structures
- send upSatirize through imitation
- satireMockery exposing vice
Mark Twain · unreliable narrator · fish out of water · Terry Pratchett · parody · Douglas Adams · human folly · Kurt Vonnegut · juxtaposition · slapstick · running gag · straight man · deadpan delivery · punning · wit · farce · reversal · miscommunication
comic fictiontragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
horror fiction · horror · tragic drama · drama · tearjerker
comic fictionliterary fiction
Prose emphasizing craft and depth
realist fiction · social realism · naturalism · philosophical fiction
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