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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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