Jest
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ZacharyHirn on December 21, 2010
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Chapter 3, section 10
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 banter | playful teasing; joking; raillery |
| caricature | drawing, imitation, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects |
| droll | odd and laughter-provoking |
| facetious | in the habit of joking: said in jest without serious intent |
| flippant | treating serious matters lightly |
| harlequin | buffoon; clown |
| hilarious | boisterously merry; very funny |
| hilarity | noisy gaiety; mirth; jollity; glee |
| ironic or Ironical | containing or expressing irony |
| irony | species of humor whose intended meaning is the opposite of the words used: state of affairs contrary to what would normally be expected |
| jocose | given to jesting; playfully humorous; jocular |
| levity | lack of proper seriousness; trifling gaiety; frivolity |
| ludicrous | exciting laughter; ridiculous; farcical; absurd |
| parody | humorous imitation |
| sarcasm | sneering and often ironic language intended to hurt a person's feelings |
| sarcastic | given to or expressing sarcasm |
| sardonic | bitterly sarcastic; mocking; sneering |
| satire | language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule |
| satiric or satirical | given to or expressing satire |
| travesty | imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous; mockery |
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