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- 1. Multiple Choice
Is slapstick comedy more focused on physical or verbal humour?
Physical humour
Verbal humour
- 2. Multiple Choice
The phrase 'slapstick' comes from:
Comedies that depict lots of slapping and stick fights.
Comedies that make you slap your shins with laughter.
The wooden object used to create a loud smacking noise as a sound effect in fight scenes.
An American tradition wherein the audience applauded used two slapping sticks rather than clapping with their hands.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Slapstick comedies often involve:
A single person on stage making jokes about things that happen to them in everyday life.
The use of irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to humorously expose and criticize a person, group, or work of art/literature.
A group of characters with very different personalities who are brought together by a circumstance such as sharing an apartment building or workplace to create humour.
A character or characters who finds themselves in improbable situations or attempts to solve problems in illogical ways.
- 4. Multiple Choice
In what significant way are props used in slapstick comedies?
Props help to create humour by acting in unexpected ways, being in expected places or being the wrong size.
Props are bright and colourful to create a jolly mood that is suited to comedy performances.
Props are used to create realistic settings and naturalistic action.
Props are transformed regularly to facilitate plot and character development.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Some conventions of slapstick are:
Use of stock characters, use of masks, and plots that involve mistakes and misunderstandings.
Practical jokes, chase scenes, extreme physicality and exaggerated violence.
Witty banter between characters, extreme emotions, and use of clichés.
Moral plotlines, and development of characters that represent human traits.
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