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GCSE English Literature · key term
Humour involving sexual references, often through words with double meanings.
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Paper 1
Language with a sexual meaning or suggestion, often used for comic effect.
Humour involving sexual references or jokes.
Humour or language containing sexual references, often through jokes and double meanings.
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Paper 1
Language or humour that refers to sex, often through double meanings.
Humour involving sex or bodily matters, often through suggestive jokes.
Sexual humour, often expressed through jokes or words with double meanings.
Paper 2
Humour or language involving sexual meanings.
Revise: MercutioMercutio replaces Romeo's idealised emotional suffering with physical desire and bawdy humour. He acts as a foil to Romeo: their contrasting attitudes make Romeo's romantic seriousness more noticeable.
Humour involving sexual references, often expressed indirectly through jokes or double meanings.
Component 1
Humour involving sexual references or suggestive double meanings.
Revise: The NurseAffection and bawdy humour are therefore intertwined from her introduction.
Sexually suggestive humour, often using words that have both an ordinary and a sexual meaning.
