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Humour, Wordplay, Irony and Parody
Analyse how writers create comic, mocking, poignant or playful tone through word choice, exaggeration, irony, parody, bathos and narrative voice.
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Tone is the attitude you hear
Tone is the attitude a text creates: serious, affectionate, mocking, comic, poignant or playful. Humour and irony are not just jokes; they are ways of shaping how the reader feels about characters, events and ideas.