Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples; a Book of Discovery, Volumen10Dodd, Mead, 1935 - 268 páginas |
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... half man , half horse , half bird . We have thus given them three halves which is more than arithmetic allows . Yet the sense is clear , and so we have as it were " taken a rise " out of the word half . Another technique of humor ...
... half man , half horse , half bird . We have thus given them three halves which is more than arithmetic allows . Yet the sense is clear , and so we have as it were " taken a rise " out of the word half . Another technique of humor ...
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... Half an hour after , Mahatma Gandhi , propped up in bed , a napkin at his neck , a tray in front of him , devoured wing after wing of the turkey on his plate . Half a month after that , he weighed two hundred and fifty pounds . Half a ...
... Half an hour after , Mahatma Gandhi , propped up in bed , a napkin at his neck , a tray in front of him , devoured wing after wing of the turkey on his plate . Half a month after that , he weighed two hundred and fifty pounds . Half a ...
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... Half a league , half a league , half a league on- ward " -equal to a league and a half in all . But to return a moment to the two poems quoted as expressions of motion , one observes that McIntyre of Ingersoll fuses both thoughts into ...
... Half a league , half a league , half a league on- ward " -equal to a league and a half in all . But to return a moment to the two poems quoted as expressions of motion , one observes that McIntyre of Ingersoll fuses both thoughts into ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
FUN WITH WORDS | 16 |
PARODY BURLESQUE AND MISTRANSLATION | 42 |
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