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Definition
making fun of
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not real
or:
not real
- (When she speaks to him, her voice has become a very gentle tease)
RUTH: (Mocking; as she thinks he would say it) Oh, Mama makes me so mad sometimes, I don't know what to do!1.1 — Act 1, Scene 1 (24% in)
mocking = imitating to make fun of
- (He laughs) BENEATHA: (Turning to him, not laughing) Yes—(Her face is quizzical, profoundly disturbed) ASAGAI: (Still teasing and reaching out and taking her face in his hands and turning her profile to him) Well .... it is true that this is not so much a profile of a Hollywood queen as perhaps a queen of the Nile—(A mock dismissal of the importance of the question) But what does it matter?1.2 — Act 1, Scene 2 (40% in)
- (Mockingly) Yeah!2.3 — Act 2, Scene 3 (55% in)
- Cure the Great Sore of Colonialism—(Loftily, mocking it) with the Penicillin of Independence—!3.1 — Act 3 (12% in)
There are no more uses of "mock" in A Raisin in the Sun.
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