In the beginning of this graphic novel, the repetition of the line “The comedian is dead.” reflects how happiness had been torn from the world during the post-war era. The sharp, truncated statement conveys an empty state of mind. The second last panel on page 26 of the graphic novel shows an empty birds eye view of the city buildings. The dark tones, used and…
Ans: The details the “spoiled hare”, “the rancid butter”, “the swollen veins”, “the sweaty forehead” gives a specific effect on the reader. The “spoiled hare” and “the rancid butter” make it seem like the place is old and way past the prime. The details of “the swollen veins” and “the sweaty forehead” give an effect that the man being described is miserable and stressed, but also mad and irritated.…
Analysis Questions 2, Pg 33 #2: What do we learn about the author as we read this essay? How does his use of language reveal not only humor, but also the author's persona? How would you describe it?…
Humor - Humor is apparent in his section headings, “The Prince of Prescriptivists”, “Linguists Spring into Action” (MacNeil, page 307) and in the examples that he includes “In downtown Pittsburgh—pronounced “dahntahn”—the question, ‘Did you eat yet?’ sounds like ‘Jeet jet?’”(MacNeil, page 312). He uses humor to keep the audience's attention, so he can insert more sensitive and educational topics.…
Humorists are people who are skillful in using humor for writing, talking, or acting. Their works bring laughter and elation to people. In Botton’s book, Status Anxiety, he believes that humorists not only entertain audience, but also convey important messages that cannot be said directly. Thus, he argues that humorists play a vital role in the society. In most cases, Botton’s claim is justified in that since the early nineteenth century, humorists express their thoughts about the society through humor. Some of these humorists do play important roles in the society by revealing crisis or events happening during that time period to bring awareness from the society.…
10. Note Hughes’ use of short simple sentences for effect. Note his use of sentence fragments.…
In “How to Write with Style” by Kurt Vonnegut, the author explains to the audience ways in which they would be able to not only improve their writing effectiveness, but list tips that are meant to guide writers into having a more simplified and enjoyable writing experience. Vonnegut questions the audience on why improving their writing styles would be effective and discusses how respecting and caring for the reader will lead to better development of your own personal style.…
In Susan Orlean’s “The American Male at Age Ten”, Orlean uses humor in order to show Colin Duffy’s muddled perception of the world due to his existence in between childhood and pre-adulthood. As a ten year old, Colin sort of has an understanding of the world, however he does not yet fully grasp everything. He is in this place where he is trying so hard to be an adult, however his youth and naiveté gets in the way. Orlean expresses this chaotic thought through humor for the duration of her piece.…
Style and genre tend to meddle together. Which causes confusion and difficulty when trying to understand these terms. However, Charles Ludlam’s Bluebeard helped me distinguish style from genre better. Ludlam’s Bluebeard falls under as a dramatic comedy but I don’t see dramatic comedy as a style. Dramatic comedy sounds like a general categorization than style would entail. Style involves specific elements and messages that separate works from each other. By contrasting Ludlam’s Bluebeard and Charles Perrault’s original version, I’ll show how different styles emerge from the same premise.…
In true definition of farce, Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest incorporates unlikely and improbable situations, extravagant characters, and the occasional mistaken identity. Wilde’s farce relies on creating absurd situations that characters approach in means they find entirely logical in his parody of high society. His protagonist, Algernon is the only character aware of the absurdities of Victorian high society, and responds by taking absolutely nothing seriously-leading a double life as a “Mr. Bunbury.”As he recognizes his brother practicing the same mischief, Algernon shares his “enlightened” philosophies about Bunburying with Jack through outstanding hypocrisy, paradox and epigrams, to create what Wilde deems “trivial comedy for serious people.”…
One of the style that is shown in the story is description. “According to Wolfe (1935), (On the outskirts of a little town upon a rise of land that swept back from the railway there was a tidy little cottage of white boards, trimmed vividly with green blinds) (Paragraph 1 , line 1-2)” where start to describe the little town. He also describe how he made a relationship with two women, and how use to see them everyday. Most…
- Long descriptive paragraphs followed by very short sentences e.g. ‘Dead as his wives.’ - isolated simile…
The poet narrates us about a sage, who lived in the past with a beautiful pigtail. Usually sages are wise men and we expect them to do wise things. But this sage worrying over a pigtail which is actually useless. Even a common man can understand this truth, but this wise man is unable to understand this fact. He just think according to his logic and forgets even the practical side of the matter. As reader’s we understand what would happen if our hair grows in front of our head, we would be unable to see, breath understand it would affect our normal life and we would have to face so many bad consequences. The illogical, irrational behavior of this sage creates humour, and we readers cannot help agreeing that the poet has made humour successfully , out of sage’s behavior.…
University of Chicago Press (2003). The Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.…
The author makes use of formal language but also incorporates colloquial elements. He is distinguished by his eloquence. Combining an elevated style with colloquial language gives a comic effect. The text varies in the use of simple and complex sentence construction. The text is written in an ironic style and contains many…