comic narrative
Humorous tale told
A comic narrative is a story structured around humor, using comedic timing, absurd situations, or witty dialogue to entertain.
The term spans forms from ancient comedies to modern sitcoms and comic novels.
Unlike tragedy, comic narratives typically end happily or at least without catastrophe: The film is a comic narrative about a family road trip gone wrong.
- Commedia dell'arteItalian improvised masked theater
- misunderstandingsFailures to grasp meaning
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
- straight manComedy duo's serious half
- parodySatirical imitation
farce · satire · wordplay · vaudeville · laugh track · mistaken identity · fish out of water · exaggeration · tall tale · absurdist humor · human folly · funny business · timing · picaresque · puns · slapstick · social critique · juxtaposition
- comedy writingjoke, jokes, satire, parody, sarcasm
- light verselimerick, doggerel, light verse, humorous poetry, nonsense poetry
- Russian HumorChekhov, satirical sketches, folk humor
comic narrativetragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
tragic narrative · tragic drama · tearjerker · tale of woe · weepie
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