humor in prose

Humor in prose highlights writing styles that offer comedic timing or dry wit to enhance literary writing. Sub-divided into internal and external comic relief-- when reader laughs along with the character and when the reader laughs but the character does not.

Annotated examples

An underfed boy of seven or eight was seated beside me, watching me in the frank, unashamed way that young people watch the unwell. - Harrow. E. A, Ch. 1, The Everlasting