JOKES  

LITERARY GENRE in the form of a short tale designed to make the audience laugh.

Hypernym
  • LITERARY GENRECulturally "Institutionalised" RHETORICAL DEVICE which consists in writing something consciously as belonging to a recognised literary genre or conventionally practised kind of document. These genres or text sorts constitute an evolving repertoire of available genres.
Rhetorical device locations: 16
  • 論語 11.23 子畏於匡, 顏淵後 子曰 吾以女為死矣 子在 回何敢死
  • 論語 「再,
  • 論語 「孰謂微生高直? 或乞醯焉 乞諸其鄰而與之
  • 論語 「三人行, 必有我師焉 擇其善者而從之 其不善者而改之

    Note the didactic double punchline. The joke is commendably short, but long on punchline.

  • 論語 吾其為東周乎?」
  • 論語 欲仁而得仁, 又焉貪
  • 論語 君子敬而無失, 與人恭而有禮 四海之內 皆兄弟也 君子何患乎無兄弟也
  • 論語 「朝聞道, 夕死可矣
  • 論語 「再, 斯可矣
  • 論語 其知可及也, 其愚不可及也
  • 論語 「唯仁者 能好人 能惡人
  • 論語 知其說者之於天下也, 其如示諸斯乎
  • 論語 吾與女弗如也。」

    Confucius is joking in a fraternalistic spirit that undermines Confucianistic hierarchy: he demonstratively poses as an equal of one disciple and inferior to another. He is clearly joking.

  • 論語 其知可及也,

    Confucius is cracking a subtle urbane joke based on a complex reading of 愚.

  • 論語 山川其舍諸?」
  • 論語 「觚不觚,