Compare And Contrast Priscilla And The Wimps

Charlie Chaplin film City Lights can be categorized as a comedy. A comedy is defined as a professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. In the film he uses jokes and sound effects to add more to the comedy and make it more entertaining for the audience.

In Mark Twain’s short story, “Cannibalism in the Cars”, he utilizes many methods in which he depicts humor in an intricate fashion that will bid well to readers. The strategies Twain uses within this story can be explained in another one of his other writing pieces called “How to Tell a Story”, in which Twain explains how great of an impact a humorous story holds and how the narrator must gradually lead his audience throughout the tale. In “Cannibalism in the Cars”, Mark Twain makes use of such devices as irony, paradox, and satire to create a humorous effect throughout the passages.

For example, the author discusses a ‘lite’ dog food and how the most positive part of the meal was that it didn’t make her fat (313). There is also a small amount of irony in the essay through the idea of a taste-testing going on, although it is not the pleasant experience of its connotation. The effect of this hilarity creates a stronger contrast between the subject of the essay and comedic tone of the writer.

“Loyalty is hard to find. Trust is easy to lose. Actions speak louder than words.”-Chinese proverb. When you say things, they aren’t always true as the actions of characters in short stories are more than just the words they say. In Richard Peck’s “Priscilla and the Wimps” and Todd Strasser’s “On The Bridge,” loyalty is a huge theme, creating the conflict and building up the tension. In “On The Bridge,” the main character is unloyal to his friend, whereas in “Priscilla and the Wimps,” the main character is loyal to her friend, saving him from losing money and getting beat up by the terrorizing gang with Monk Klutter and his Kobras. The protagonists in each of the stories, “Priscilla and the Wimps”

One of the categories discussed is humor and how it may be one of the hardest tones to successfully incorporate in literature. Despite the variety of examples provided the inclusion of “Me Talk Pretty One Day” will further magnify the ways humorous material can be translated. In this particular pice Sedaris demonstrates humor through the use of tricolons. For example, this is seen when he compares himself to his classmates. He describes it as being uncomfortable because “ they were all young, attractive, and well-dressed, causing me to feel not unlike Pa Kettle trapped backstage after a fashion show”(Sedaris 11). As a result, by making reference to a model while continuing to describe how out of place he felt gives the reader a better sense

In Casey at the Bat, Ernest Thayer uses humor in veriest ways. He uses humor to describe how the audience reacts to certain experiences at the baseball game. One of the techniques he uses is figurative language.

There are very many different elements of humor, but what makes you laugh the most? Priscilla and the Whimps is about a school gang who sells bathroom passes and the leader bullies a small guy named Melvin Detweiler and a huge girl named Priscilla Roseberry, but that backfires and Priscilla teaches the leader a lesson. “Priscilla and the Whimps” by Richard Peck is a low and high level comedy that uses comic situations and caricatures to convey the idea that you won’t always be better than someone else.

To begin, the comedic element use in the story was contradiction. Contradiction is when something go against or say the opposite of what someone else is doing or saying. For instance the grandmother called herself a lady, but frequently judge people. also everything said by the grandmother about a good man contradicts itself everything she. For example, Red Sammy got played to two guys for gas. When Red Sammy ask why did he do that the grandmother said because you’re a good man considering that

Comedy is entertainment consisting of jokes, intended to make an audience laugh. In the recent years, many novels and movies are starting to become comedies. And many of those novels and movies, share similar comedic elements. Many comedic elements are shown throughout The Importance of Being Earnest that are still present in movies today. For example, in the movie White Chicks, there are elements that are presented in a similar fashion as in The Importance of Being Earnest. These elements consist of characters who are caricatures, farcical scenes, and all-inclusive resolution.

Comedy in a dramatic sense – a story of drama that resolves the conflict in the opposite manner such as joy verses a dramatic ending (Dictionary.com)

It might seem Peter from Mr. Terupt and Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid have some similarities. Peter from Mr.Terupt is a very big trouble maker. He loves to pull pranks on school mates. Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a outgoing person. Messes around but also loves to play video games. But a theme that goes for both story’s is they both create mischief.

Throughout the story these characters bring comedy into a serious or dramatic section through their social awkwardness or not realizing they are doing something that they should not. Mr. Collins’ actions at the ball that he attended brought a more comical mood to something that was originally serious. The comical action at the ball is Mr. Collins’ failure to abide by typical social customs, especially when introducing himself to Mr.

There’s nothing better than a comedy to lift your spirits up with baskets full of laughter. I like the idea of comedies when there’s a complete misunderstanding, trickery or when things go wrong. For example in one of the episodes of My Wife and Kids when a girl called Claire tells her dad that there will be photograph day in school. So she asks her dad for a massive photograph of her to put on the wall. Her dad said no. On the day of the school photograph when she woke up, her right cheek was swollen-much bigger than the other. As persuaded by her parents she reluctantly went to school. When Claire arrived home she said to her dad thanks for only buying a small picture of me otherwise it would have been a total disaster seeing myself with

Comedy, a genre that gives many a reason to laugh while giving others a reason to feel offended. Comedy is a genre of literature, which focuses on jokes and satirical content, intended on making the audience laugh and usually having a happy ending for the protagonist. However, comedy without satirical content and characters would be simple words. Satirical content is the component of comedy which allows for the exposure of social, political and even religious issues to the audience. On the other hand, there are the characters of the comedy which help the author convey his or her point to the audience.

This year in Funny Pages, I have learned a considerable amount about the art of Comedy. Some of the stories we read were such classics as: Twelfth Night, The Lull, Handful of Dust, and the Unrest Cure. Each of these stories are brilliant and amusing in its own ways. These stories also have a likeness in the types of humor practiced. There are several elements that seem to be repeated throughout such as: satire, characters that represent the spirit of comedy or its enemy, and