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16 Cards in this Set
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farce
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comedy featuring rowdy, sometimes violent action, with audience laughter as main goal
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gothic
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a medieval architectureal style popular in western europe till the late 1500s; slim upright supports
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lampoon
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usually long and lengthy verbal pic RIDICULING an individual; lighter mocking satire
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parody
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form of high burlesque that ridicules LITERARY WORK
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rococo
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extremely ORNATE or fancifully intricate (18th cent arch.)
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satire
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comedy using laughter as a weapon, to evoke attitudes of contempt and scorn along with amusement
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travesty
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humor that mocks its serious or lofty subject by treating it in lowly or grotesque terms; low, warped imitation
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GEN
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type, birth, race, cause
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AGON
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struggle
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VERS/ VERT
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turn, line, verse
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Bon and BENE
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good or well
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bonny
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appealing
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bonhomie
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warmth friendliness
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engender
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to cause, produce
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baroque
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referring to elaborate artistic style of 17th cent art and arch, curved/ornamental
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burlesque
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comedic form that amkes ppl actions or lit works seem ridiculous through imitation
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