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Stand-up comedy

rhetorical
Stand-up comedy is a comic monologue figure
(n.): figura
performed by one person standing on a stage. retórica
Stand-op actors use several rhetorical figures,
for example:
hyperbole
• Exaggeration or hyperbole: Increases or rhetorical figure
decreases one or more characteristics self-compassion
Glossary on
of something or someone. pages 92 and 93
• Self-compassion: A form of exaggeration.
The person exaggerates some aspect of their
own situation to cause laughter or grief.
• Irony: Implies understanding the opposite
of what is said or written.
contemptous
• Sarcasm: A form of irony which criticizes (adj.):
desdeñoso
in an offensive or contemptuous manner.

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