‘farce’ is a light comic event inserted in the middle of a play or movie to lighten the scene. It intends to make the audience laugh for a while, when the plotline seems to be serious. It can be through humor, nonsense, over exaggeration, or jokes. E.g. Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbur...
the strain for most writers of creative non-fiction is the need to be 100% true to the facts—they cannot alter any minor detail or exaggerate anything. in fact, the only detail non-fiction writers can change are the names of the characters or places to protect the people involved. non-...