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All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution.
What is parody?
100
"Go on and rest the bag for a little while;" she said, "I don't care if you're not equal to me for a little while."
What is Reversed
100
"The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides."
What is Reversal
100
"Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well."
What is exaggeration
300
They were burdened [the ballerinas] with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.
What is Incongruity?
300
It wasn't clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment.
What is Reversed
300
"Last of all he removed her mask she was blindingly beautiful."
What is Incongruity
300
"It was then Diana Moon Glampers the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the emperor and empress wer dead before they hit the floor."
What is reversal
500
The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.
What is exaggeration?
500
"Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen, ... has just escaped from jail, where he has held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genus and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous."
What is Exaggeration
500
"I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived."
What is exageration
500
And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained in air inches below the ceiling.
What is parody?