Types of Humor

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Across
  1. 2. Humor with an attitude, used to tease, humiliate, and manipulate people. Overlaps with irony and tongue-in-cheek
  2. 5. To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.
  3. 7. grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation.
  4. 8. Short, quotable humor that emphasizes brevity, expressed in one- or two-liners, often disguised as a philosophical observation
  5. 10. To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing.
Down
  1. 1. Exaggerated calmness and understatement inappropriate to the topic. Overlaps with dry humor and dark humor
  2. 2. Deliberate humorous exaggerations actual events or human nature
  3. 3. To present the opposite of the normal order (e.g., the order of events, hierarchical order).
  4. 4. Characters get themselves into unlikely or exaggerated scenarios and have to think their way out, becoming increasingly ridiculous along the way. Farce can be more intellectual or less intellectual
  5. 6. To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings.
  6. 9. Humor based on deliberate or accidental incongruity