(Download) Humor In Literature
Examples of humor in literature.
Humor in literature. Lesson ideas for analyzing humor in literature create a six column chart with the following headers. Humor definition of humor. Literary devices that create humor exaggeration or overstatement. Example meiosis hyperbole comic irony humorous dialect satire. Wilson charles reagan and william ferris eds encyclopedia of southern culture chapel hill n c. Psychological well being affiliative style humour. Individuals with this dimension of humour tend to use jokes as a means of affiliating.
Humor is in fact the end product and not the. Southern humor like much of the best southern writing in general has been boisterous and physical often grotesque and generally realistic. Used by permission of the publisher. Jane austen s novel. University of north carolina press 1989. There are several types of devices that create humor. Irony resides in this more intellectual end of the spectrum arguably the most useful humor concept for writers of literary fiction.
7 reasons writers of serious novels should use humor in their fiction 1. Read several humorous works in class and instruct students. Humor helps with that. Understatement is an expression of lesser emphasis than expected or called for. 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. People that fall under this dimension of humour tend to take a humorous perspective of life. Understatement or litotes.
To make a mountain out of a molehill. One example of. To represent as thing as greater than it is. Whatever we might identify as humor is always dependent on numerous inciting conditions and receptive states that are constantly changing. Assigning positive traits to characters. Humor is a literary tool that makes audiences laugh or that intends to induce amusement or. And cousins urk ezra harkaway and caraway this laugh out loud novel details what.
Full of aptly and hilariously named characters such as the jersey cows graceless pointless aimless and feckless. People with a sense of humor are better liked and research shows. Imitate a humorous work with a creative writing assignment.