Abstract
On the pages of literary works, the reader is often confronted with funny characters or episodes, funny names of characters, ridiculous features of speech. In all these cases, we are dealing with manifestations of the comic in literature. The reader understands that the writer set himself the task of causing the audience to laugh, to portray something funny. But at the same time, we cannot fail to notice how different such laughter can be. In literary criticism, it is customary to distinguish the following types of comic: humor, irony, satire and sarcasm. Also, experts distinguish between the techniques of the comic. These include hyperbole, absurdity, grotesque, fantasy, self-exposure and some others.
Highlights
The expressiveness of speech is achieved through the use of various linguistic means, including tropes words and expressions used not in a direct, but in a figurative sense
Sarcasm is a caustic remark, a caustic satirical denunciation, which is based on a sharp contrast between the positive beginning of a phrase and its destructive meaning, which is revealed in a direct indication of human vices or ugly phenomena of reality
In conclusion we can point out the following results: - Irony is a way of veiled, hidden negative assessment of the object of speech; - Sarcasm is a trope in which a figurative accusatory meaning is expressed with a minimum degree of allegory; - The form of an ironic statement is always positive, in contrast to the latent ridicule, to which its meaning is reduced; - A sarcastic remark or address directly indicates the subject of derogatory criticism; - Irony is used as a kind of comic in humorous literary works and oral figurative speech; - Sarcasm is never soft; as a sharply satirical means of artistic expression, it is usually used in accusatory oratorical speeches and publicity texts of social and political content
Summary
The expressiveness of speech is achieved through the use of various linguistic means, including tropes words and expressions used not in a direct, but in a figurative sense. They are used if you need to express your attitude to the object of speech in an allegorical form, putting into the statement or remark an incriminating hidden meaning that is opposite to the positive context.
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