The use of invented compound words is another comic device frequently found in the plays.

Many in the audience laughed at what they recognized as a familiar comic theatrical device.

What are a dropped hanky and a delayed wedding announcement if not age-old comic devices?

That Memphis furniture wound up as a comic device in a Hollywood movie says a lot about the year 1986.

He is fond of the use of comic devices such as the one-liner and the Paraprosdokian.

It's funny, surprising, and full of comic devices.

This comic device was first used in Hold That Ghost (1941).

Irony was once a comic device, a delivery system for a reformative idea, a challenge to the status quo.

A study of comic devices used by satirists in general and the great 19th century satirist in particular.

Here, sequences in stepwise motion career out of control, a comic device Haydn also used to wonderful effect.