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    What Is Screwball Comedy

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    established genres like “Screwball Comedy‚” “Mockumentary‚” or “Spoofs and Satires.” The new genres created more specifically for the text‚ such as “Because You Like The Office” or “Tops Picks for (Viewer’s name)‚” would include aspects more unique to this text in particular. Thus‚ the genre created by Netflix may include other shows created by Michael Schur‚ like Parks and Recreation‚ or starring Steve Carell‚ like The Daily Show. It may also include other mockumentaries‚ NBC shows‚ office comedies‚ offbeat

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    Divine, Comedy

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    DIVINE COMEDY INFERNO Inferno section 1: Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno)‚ Purgatory (Purgatorio)‚ and Heaven (Paradiso) takes place in 1300‚ at the midpoint of his life.  Dante sets himself as the narrator and main character of this epic poem.  His flight through Hell begins in a dark and unknown forest.  As Dante wanders through the woods he comes to a hill above which shines the first sunlight that he has encountered in the forest.  But as Dante begins to climb the hill a leopard blocks

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    The Horror Genre

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    Did you that it cost 320.2 million U.S. dollars to create “The Conjuring 2” which is one of the top rated horror movies of 2016? The horror genre is a genre that seeks the fear of viewers or readers by capering with ones intuition. The two types of horror are supernatural and parallel. These horror genres can have demons‚ghost‚unknown creatures‚suspense‚mystery‚murder‚zombies‚insanity‚internal/external forces‚vampires or just anything that is out of the norm.These are just some basic figures and

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    Mystery Genre

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    Nue Chanthavongsay Detective Fiction Assignment #1 In the first video segment‚ Smith discusses the definition of a Mystery Genre by separating the different aspects of mystery into subgenres. There are the cozies‚ serial killer books‚ suspense‚ and classic mysteries. Smith says that’s cozies are mysteries devoid of onstage violence and sex. For example‚ in a cozy the protagonist would be a cat or a British housekeeper and also the crime solver. In serial killer books‚ everyone dies in a very

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    The Divine Comedy

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    The divine comedy is an epic poem written b Dante Alghieri between 1306 and 1321. In three sections Dante takes you through Inferno (Hell)‚ Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise or Heaven). Each section has 33 parts that include mythological and historical personages. Dante starts in the Forest of Error when he is just 35 years old. The Forrest of Error symbolized his sin and the sin of the world. He tries to get through the light on the top of the hill which represents Christ but a leopard

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    Comedy Bar

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    Total entertainment was given to us Mapuans last January 23.The show was generally non-stop on laughter. The performers were so funny that the Gymnasium was full of laughter until the end. All the viewers were cheering and laughing at the same time during and even after the show. The crowd even scream and wave their hands wildly to cheer for the performers when they attempt to kiss a spectator. All we did was to observed and enjoy the show. The show was started by three comedians- Atak‚ Petite

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    Introduction to Genre Theory Daniel Chandler 1. The problem of definition A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really ’out there ’ in the world‚ or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral‚ time-bound entities? Are genres culturebound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive? (Stam 2000‚ 14) The word genre comes from

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    Lyrics as a Genre

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    Lyrics as a Genre Lyric derives from the Greek word λυρικός lyrikos‚ meaning "singing to the lyre". A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective‚ personal point of view. Lyric Poetry consists of a poem‚ such as a sonnet or an ode that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly‚ portraying his or her own

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    Discuss the choice of genre; comedy or tragedy? In this assignment I will discuss the choice of genre; comedy or tragedy? In the play Death of a Salesman (2000) by Arthur Miller and the movie east is east (1999) by Ayub Khan-Din. I will suggest Willy Loman within the play Death of a Salesman (2000) actually is the architect of his own failure. I will put forward Loman’s ideal of the American Dream and show while he strived to achieve this goal‚ this ultimately proved to be the cause of his demise

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    Comedy of Manners

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    A comedy concerned with the social actions and behavior of members of a highly sophisticated‚ upper-class society.  The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of dialogue‚ abounding in the use of paradox‚ epigram‚ and irony. All these three devices produce a comic effect in this play‚ even though it is possible for a dramatist to use these devices for a serious purpose also. There are a number of paradoxical statements‚ epigrammatic remarks‚ and ironical or sarcastic remarks‚ all of a comic

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