Taunting
						"Here, you see a physical taunting, yes I'm trying to scare you, and I'm not kidding, don't I look scary? Of course I do. As you see this physical taunting, how does it compare to that of literature? Oh come on! In literature, it's another form of expressing yourself, basically you'd either rudely interrupt somehow, ridicule another, mock, jeering, and on and on the taunting will go. For a ninja, imagine how physical taunting can help us scare enemies away! Even the little animals too! Learning the smallest aspects can also help you learn a lot!"
		Taunting adj : 1. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn: derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking] n : aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing Taunt taunt1 tr.v. taunt·ed, taunt·ing, taunts 1. To reproach in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner. See Synonyms at ridicule. 2. To drive or incite (a person) by taunting. Synonyms: derisive, jeering, mocking, teasing, twit Definitions and synonyms from www.dictionary.com
			Passage: "What that word you say, boy?" "Social responsibility," I said. "What?" "Social..." "Louder." "...responsibility." "More!" "Respon--" "Repeat!" "--sibility." The room filled with the uproar of laughter until, no doubt distracted by having to gulp down my blood, I made a mistake and yelled a phrase I had often seen denounced in newspaper editorials, heard debated in private. "Social..." "What?" they yelled. "...equality--" The laughter hung smoke like in the sudden stillness. I opened my eyes, puzzled. Sounds of displeasure filled the room. The M.C. rushed forward. They shouted hostile phrases at me. But I did not understand. A small dry mustached man in the front row blared out, "Say that slowly, son!" "What, sir?" "What you just said!" "Social responsibility, sir," I said. "You weren't being smart were you boy?" he said, not unkindly.   "No, sir!" "You sure about 'equality' was a mistake?" "Oh, yes sir," I said. "I was swallowing blood."                                   - The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
	Explanation: As the crowd listens to the main character, they constantly would disrupt him as an intention so that they'll get their own way within his speech, and thus the crowd's tone appears to be taunting. To them, to taunt a black man is a form of fun, so they interrupt the main character’s supposedly dignified speech. The crowd's overpowering remarks such as "Louder," and "Repeat!" and the narrator's humble replies such as "What, sir?" and the continuous use of the word "sir" by the narrator, a word used to show humble politeness, create a sense that the crowd is mocking and taunting the narrator. Simply by cutting him off from his speech they jeeringly demand his humiliation. Furthermore, the syntax created ruing the passage had been in particularly extremely shortened sentences to mark the easy going rudeness of the audience (to blatantly show the crowds superiority to the narrator).