Humor In Literature

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Humor in literature. Examples of humor in literature. Humor consisting of a witty saying such as too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words not all epigrams are humorous however two masters of epigrammatic humor are benjamin franklin as the author of poor richard s almanack and oscar wilde. Understatement is an expression of lesser emphasis than expected or called for. Used by permission of the publisher.

Humor is in fact the end product and not the. Example meiosis hyperbole comic irony humorous dialect satire. Individuals with this dimension of humour tend to use jokes as a means of affiliating. Humor definition of humor.

People that fall under this dimension of humour tend to take a humorous perspective of life. Humor helps with that. Understatement or litotes. Psychological well being affiliative style humour.

Humor is a literary tool that makes audiences laugh or that intends to induce amusement or. There are several types of devices that create humor. Literary devices that create humor exaggeration or overstatement. Admittedly some widely known authors feel that humor writing skills let alone the sense of humor are mystically inherited rather than learned and likely molded by such factors as ethnic characteristics early childhood maternal in uence and insecurity.

Assigning positive traits to characters. To make a mountain out of a molehill. To represent as thing as greater than it is. Lesson ideas for analyzing humor in literature create a six column chart with the following headers.

7 reasons writers of serious novels should use humor in their fiction 1. We writers are urged to make our characters relatable. Published in 1932 in satirical response to romantic rural literature popular at the time stella gibbons cold comfort farm is a rollicking read about flora poste a broke 19 year old metropolitan orphan who decides to impose herself upon her remote farming relatives the starkadders. Wilson charles reagan and william ferris eds encyclopedia of southern culture chapel hill n c.

Jane austen s novel. Whatever we might identify as humor is always dependent on numerous inciting conditions and receptive states that are constantly changing. Read several humorous works in class and instruct students. Full of aptly and hilariously named characters such as the jersey cows graceless pointless aimless and feckless.

Irony resides in this more intellectual end of the spectrum arguably the most useful humor concept for writers of literary fiction. University of north carolina press 1989. One example of.