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IBE Writers Craft, Comedy of Manners: A witty comedy that ridicules…
IBE Writers Craft
Symbolic Names
Ernest
'Honest'
Dramatic/Situational irony
Situational - When something happens that is opposite to what the situation suggets
Dramatic - The audience know something the characters don't
Phatic
Socially acceptable comments or conversation
Periphrastic
Being deliberately indirect with what you are saying
Puns and double entendres
Something which has a double meaning (usually rude) or a play on words
Anti-naturalist
Deliberately not lifelike
Semantic control
The character or voice that dominates a certain scene
Hyperbole
Use of exaggeration to amuse or criticise
Binary Opposites
When two things are brought together to show a perspective
Anaphora
Use the same phrase in a succession of sentences
Inversions
A reverse of an expectation
Epigrams
A sharp witty statement
Irony
You say something which is the opposite of what you mean
Repartee
Literally means 'to score points' - verbal point scoring
Comedy of Manners: A witty comedy that ridicules societies conventions
Imagery similes and metaphors
Allusions
Dr. Chas
Ancient Myth
Language within the play is used as a weapon because in a repressive society you cannot speak your truth