Images for Craig White's Literature Courses

Reversal, Inversion, Subversion, Distortion

figures for comic actions or techniques,
esp. incongruity & irony

 

Reversal

(turning things around or crossing them up)

 

 

Inversion, Subversion

(turning things upside down or inside out)

 

 

Distortion

(Any change of shape not involving breach of continuity, as the distortion of a circle into an oval)

 

 

Funhouse Mirrors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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