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                                              Comedy Comedy:-  comedy is a literary genre and a type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending. The motif of this dramatic work is triumph over unpleasant circumstance by creating comic effects, resulting in a happy or successful conclusion. Thus, the purpose of comedy is to amuse the audience. Comedy has multiple sub-genres depending upon the source of the humor, context in which an author delivers dialogues, and delivery methods, which include farce, satire, and burlesque. Tragedy is opposite to comedy,  as tragedy deals with sorrowful and tragic events in the story. According to Oxford advanced learner’s dictionary, comedy means a branch of drama, which deals with everyday life and humorous events. It also means a play of light and amusing type of theater. Comedy may be defined as a play with a happy ending. Though, there are many functions of comedy, yet the most importa

                                        Burlesque Burlesque:- is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. The word drives from the Italian Burlesco, which, in turn, is derived from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery. Or it is I literature, comic imitation of a serious literary or artistic form that relies on an extravagant incongruity between a subject and its treatment. In burlesque the serious is treated lightly and the frivolous seriously; genuine emotion is sentimentalized, and trivial emotions are elevated to a dignified plane. Burlesque is closely related to parody, in which the language and style of a particular author, poem, or other work is mimicked, although burlesque is generally broader and coarser.

                                   Types of Drama and Dramatic terms   1. Burlesque, Comedy, Comedy of Humours, Comedy of Manners, Farce, Interlude, Masque,  Miracle Play, Morality Play, Mystery Play, Opera, Problem Play, Realistic Drama, Tragedy 2. Antagonist, Catharsis, Climax, Comic Relief, Dramatic Irony, Hamartia, Hubris, Monologue,                               Pathetic Fallacy, Protagonist, Soliloquy

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A.       Type of drama:-  Elements of Drama:- Character, Dialogue, Plot, Setting , Stage. Drama:- drama is also a type of a play written for theater, television, radio, and film. In simple words drama is a composition in verse or prose presenting a story in pantomime or dialogue. It contains conflict of characters, particularly the ones who perform in front of audience on the stage. Elements of drama Character:-   A drama is a piece of writing , which is artistically presented with dialogues. A drama is attractive, impact and real as it presents characters along with a natural and credible aspects. It is very similar to a short story as it also comprises characters, plot, setting as well as symbolism. The qualities that makes somebody something different from other people or things; the nature of somebody. A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative ( such as a novel, play, television series, film or videos games) the