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Q&A Delivering sarcasm

In novels you can parse sarcasm because you know the characters, specifically you know what they know and how they think, so you know the difference between a serious suggestion and a flip suggesti...

posted 5y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-19T22:13:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:29:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T11:29:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
In novels you can parse sarcasm because you know the characters, specifically you know what they know and how they think, so you know the difference between a serious suggestion and a flip suggestion.

I've written a sarcastic retort by a character in one of my stories, and my first reader got it immediately; because the character was making a suggestion completely out of her personality. So it _had_ to be sarcasm, and that's how it was read and it was found funny to get a laugh (even though the character was frustrated with the stubbornness of another character).

You cannot duplicate that in an internet post except with friends that get your personality. Absent that relationship, then in that venue, you need to make your sarcastic responses a bit over the top, so they seem outlandish enough to make the reader think twice about how serious you are being.

Either that, or include a rolling-eyes emoji, if possible.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-03-23T22:29:07Z (over 5 years ago)
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