"1. First, find five examples of humorous devices that you have encountered. These can include any of the following:

Verbal Irony

Sarcasm

Situational Irony

Dramatic Irony

Hyperbole

Understatement

Malapropism

Pun

Oxymoron

2. Next, collect the examples. You can write them down (be sure to give credit to the person who said or created them!), take pictures or screen shots, or summarize the experience in your own words. Be sure to give credit to all sources you use.

3. Then you must explain which humorous devices your examples represent. For each, offer an analysis that demonstrates a good understanding of the device, its purpose, and its effect.

4. Finally, create a presentation to present your findings."

Now there are two main problems here, both involving the first rule, being I could only use examples of one of NINE specific examples. In order, these techniques, simplified, are:

Basically sarcasm

Actual sarcasm

How did this even happen under these circumstances!?!?

You don't saaay?

Exaggeration

Reverse exaggeration

Call the grammar police

Do I even need to say...?

Similarly contradictory

Now in the wide world of funny things in media, there is so many more types of funny being used over these, they're barely relevant. On one hand I was sure they were common, but either A) it's like trying to pick an ice cream flavor from 500 different options or B) most of them aren't even relevant humor. We remember the quotes from Samuel L. Jackson, the attitudes of Guardians of the Galaxy, the Bee Movie memes, all for different reasons... nah, Bee Movie was 70% pun actually...

Eventually I had to dig pretty deep, and just a disclaimer, if you think I'm different in other places than I tend to be 'round these parts...

I'm not.

I began my journey in Imgflip... aka meme HQ. I figured I'd find more examples, and well, I found three -1. The first was of course the patron saint of jokes across the world...

Legends have been passed of the legacy of dad jokes, so what better place to begin? Of course, for the hardcore literates out there who know of the traditional sense of a pun, simply replacing a word with a similar word and somehow making it relevant to the topic isn't what put puns in stand-up. Eventually I found a more timely pun, but alas, I then realized the second bad thing about selecting from that list...

"The only trick is that you can’t repeat devices! Once you have found an example of hyperbole, your other four examples must be of different humorous devices."

So I now had an extra pun. To be fair, if this rule wasn't in effect, I could have found 5 puns and be done a week ago. However, I already set up the slide, and I wasn't going to let it go to waste.

So that there is how our grandpappies did jokes. They tried teaching it to our dads... but that obviously didn't go well. I'd like to hope I get extra points somehow for that one... but nah, this is FLVS we're talking about. I'm pretty dang sure they use a grade bot, they already told me about the plagiarism detecting program, so it isn't too far fetched. That and my English teacher already forgot my name twice so...

Now back in my early youtube watching days, I used to watch Nostalgia Critic, which gave me good insight on the trope of "youtubers who make a show out of hating everything". After watching enough AVGN, you can pick up what's actually bad and what's not as bad as it's made out to be, and Nostalgia Critic is much the same. Doug Walker's character often expresses extreme disdain towards movie and cartoon adaptions that frick with the source material, like Alice and Wonderland (the Tim Burton one), a LOT of Dr. Seuss movies, and that Batman movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Of course, he reviews many movies that actually are pretty bad, like After Earth, Ghost Rider 1-2, and holy cow I never expected that's what the Pearl Harbor movie would be about...

So when thinking of a good example of dramatic irony, I recalled a specific movie he went over, Devil. I saw the review around 2015, it was pretty funny, both the stuff he did and the movie itself. Yeah, it's meant to be horror or something, but let me tell you right now... overly religious Mexican with Ouija toast. That's just something you can't make up these days...

For a director obsessed with twists, you'd think he'd want his twists to be twists. That's like watching the commercial for Megamind revealing Metroman was alive before the movie even gets released. Also I noted that Nostalgia Critic would be a part of my graduation speech for his contribution to my homework knowledge. Seriously, it’s a comment on that video now, I don’t lie about these kinds of things.

On the topic of animated movies... I stopped trying to look deep and just grabbed this.

Probably the most obvious example I could have found, but I was out of gas.

However, I still needed one more example to seal the deal, and I may or may not have cheated... look, I've been deprived the past few weeks. I've been studying and working non-stop, I'm not at a stage of game withdrawal where I actually stop working for 10 minutes and IMAGINE games. In Overwatch, in the first point of Kings Row, I was playing Symmetra and the time was at 1:37 and their Mercy never used a Resurrection. I imagined they were preparing a last minute push, so as the counter went down, we were able to kill some players. I then went by their corpses, planted down some turrets on the FLOOR, I wouldn't expect it to work, but then Mercy revived the players and they were instantly slowed and damaged by the turrets. None of that actually happened, I was able to simulate a battle strategy in my head, complete with Genji requiring healing and Gunshot87 complaining about his headshots not insta-killing while playing as Roadhog. Who's Gunshot87? I DUNNO, guess now he's just the spiritual representation of new players who have no idea how the game works yet and expect the game is faulty.

And recently I re-visited my old hunting grounds and provided scientific theories explaining how the void in Super Paper Mario might work in real life. So now Super Paper Mario was on my mind, and in terms of finding a good Malapropism...

I fanboy'd in a school assignment... I need help. Like actual clinical help. Possibly spiritual help as well, where can I find the Dr. Strange sanctuary?

At this point there was only one more to go, and I already had it ready. Probably the greatest source of irony with memes I knew of...

Here's a clickable link to that

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/being-bad-luck-brian-when-the-meme-that-made-you-famous-starts-to-fade-away/2015/01/05/07cbf6ac-907c-11e4-a412-4b735edc7175_story.html?utm_term=.5be4181594ab

Gambiy once told me that trying to make a meme a meme won't result in it becoming a meme, and here shines hope upon our meme kingdom...

So yeah, that's a thing I did, submitted to a professional, and am expecting a positive outcome from. Honestly feels like I'm doing Russian roulette right now. Anyone else seen good examples of these methods? I mean like actual good ones that people remembered, not the dollar store brand in the samplers section. I could've just gotten another person in here and have him spout out random examples and turn those into an assignment, but I didn't, cause I don't know another person. ; w ;