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    Humorous speech topics for teens including bizarre tabloids‚ special effects‚ buying nonsensical gifts and tips for putting it all together and testing in a smart inquiry. This is one of the pages I wrote on humor and fun for students assignments. Also browse my tips on incorporating humor in presentations. I am sure you will find something that you like to elaborate on for class lessons. Okay‚ here are some ideas for humorous speech ideas: Basic Chinese phrases to survive travelling in China

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    intention‚ these include; descriptions‚ explanations‚ and instructions. Whatever you present should be new to your audience. THE ENTERTAINING SPEAKER (226-A): Speech Objectives 1) The Entertaining Speech: Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn

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    Annotating In Cold Blood

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    In Cold Blood​  Passage Analysis  (Used with permission from Jennifer Cullen ­­ Westwood High School)    You will be assigned to a group of 2­3 members.  The group’s task will be to meaningfully  practice the skills of passage analysis‚ in preparation for a timed writing.      PART I (Homework)    A.  This is a forum to strengthen your analysis skill for the AP language Exam.  You and your  group will choose one meaningful‚ memorable passage from Sections I ‚II‚ III‚ and IV.      Each passage s

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    based on how they look‚ how they talk‚ and most importantly who they surround themselves with. In most cases‚ first impressions are fairly precise. In the classic short story‚ “The Haircut” by Ring Lardner‚ the barber Whitey reveals his sick sense of humor‚ his disregard for the feelings of other individuals‚ and his complete admiration of a less than valiant character. Whitey doesn’t bluntly disclose his detestable characteristic in casual conversation‚ but by his own form of an eulogy of a close friend

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    Custody of The Pumpkin

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    son‚ tendencies to overreact‚ tendency to get carried away‚tends to say the wrong thing at the wrong time‚ he got everything he wanted even though he didn’t deserve it Mcallister- Way he talks is humorous‚ scottish temper is used as a tool for humor‚ very proud‚ Hon Freddie- Hilarious (narrator compares him to a theocritan Shepard)‚ very flippant‚ romantic‚ his mannerisms are childish‚ has lots of dumb luck. Only thing funny about Niagra is her name. Dialogue- Idiocy‚ Lord Emsworth’s

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    by humor and brings it into a new intriguing light. This work of non-fiction is nothing like I’ve ever read before. I enjoyed reading every page of this book and I learned facts that I hadn’t know prior to. The writer’s style is totally cool and funny. If the approach to reading this book would be like reading a boring textbook‚ that assumption should be thrown out the window because I was giggling all throughout the book. I can personally relate to the book because it has a sense of humor that

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    The Dusk

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    bar of soap. Two elements of humor that the author uses in this story are comic irony and satire. Comic irony occurs when the reader knows something that a character does not‚ and in this story is evidenced when the young man drolly ends his sad tale with a veiled request for mone. The man obviously has told his story to make Gortsby feel sorry for him and lend him some money‚ but Gortsby does not know for sure that his story is a lie. Satire is the use of humor to expose a human frailty. Gortsby’s

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    The Ransom of Red Chief

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    five paragraph essay explaining the three kinds of irony‚ and giving at least one example of each kind of irony from the story‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief” The Humor of the Ransom of Red Chief “I’ll fix you” say the kid to Bill on page 486 from the Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry. This tall tale is very funny and creates a lot of humor. A tall tale is an improbable story. The reason that it is so funny ‚ because it includes a lot of irony in the story. Irony is witty language used to convey

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    O. Henry a humorous tone is being used to express kidnapping. “I was only funning” is Henrys way of portraying the humor. This is funny because it is not the way most people talk‚ it is unusual‚ and so it is funny. Henry uses hyperboles throughout this story for example‚ “the town down there‚ as flat flannel cake.” The flatness of the town was overly exaggerated and helped bring humor to the tone. Another way a kidnapping

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    Today we live in an age of satire‚ in which everything we see is so readily parodied that we often begin to lose the meaning of such an act in the first place. However many of these modern satirists do have points that they wish to make‚ as well as inspirations for doing so. Arguably one of the biggest influences on satire as we see it today was none other than the Irish author Jonathan Swift. Swift’s style of writing was iconic and very often ageless‚ as he frequently merged the general and specific

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