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Writing comedy
Meera Syal explores how comic effects can be created in writing using examples from '1066 and All That' by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman. She focuses on timing, pace, rhythm, the rule of three and how through use of these constructions the reader's expectation is inverted.
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Creating parody
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