Detective comedy 3: Getting the job
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Standards

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
detective stories
comedy
humour
tropes
- Purpose
- Examining detective genre tropes, such as getting the job.
- Description
- This lesson continues the examination of blending of detective and comedy genres in 'The Falcon's Malteser', focussing on getting the job and tropes such as observational (and judgemental) descriptions of characters. We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.