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Welcome to today's class

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Today's lesson:

  • Introduction to The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Literary terms we need to know
  • Humour in the play
  • Work on Wip exercise 39
Goals:

  • Can use new vocabulary in context

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The Importance of being Earnest
- Play written by Oscar Wilde 
- First performed in 1895
- Only 86 performances after being cancelled because Wilde was imprisoned for homosexuality. 
- Revived in later years. 
- It was written in the Victorian age, a time of strict social rules. 

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Humour
The Importance of being Earnest is a comedy.

Comedy: 
humourous story with a happy ending.
vs 
Tragedy: 
serious story with a sad ending.

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Types of humour found in the play
Slapstick:
A style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as saws and ladders.

Farce:
entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.[1] Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense

Wit :
a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny.
Types of humour found in this play:
Slapstick:
A style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as saws and ladders.


Farce:
entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense

Wit :
a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny.

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Types of humour found in the play
Slapstick:
A style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as saws and ladders.

Farce:
entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.[1] Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense

Wit :
a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny.
Types of humour found in this play:
Pun: 

a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous.

Often used in English paper headlines. 

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Types of humour found in this play:
Irony:
 a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality. For example, the difference between what something appears to mean versus its literal meaning. Irony is associated with both tragedy and humor.

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Types of humour found in this play:
Satire:
the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices,

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Examples of slapstick

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Farce:

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Wit

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Irony

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Satire:

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We'll begin reading next class
For now, work on Wip exercise 39. 

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