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    Zia ul Islam wrote an English assignment for section B on September 9th, 2022 about the topic of humour. The document outlines 4 key points about humour: 1) Humour is an attitude or skewed point of view that brings the excesses and absurdities of everyday life into sharp focus. 2) Humour is unstructured and ongoing, unlike jokes which have a setup and punchline. It focuses on ongoing relationships and perspectives rather than isolated events. 3) Humour has no shelf life because it reminds us of the constantly present absurdities of life, whereas jokes grow old once you've heard the punchline. 4) Humour derives from characters, especially narrators

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    Zia ul Islam wrote an English assignment for section B on September 9th, 2022 about the topic of humour. The document outlines 4 key points about humour: 1) Humour is an attitude or skewed point of view that brings the excesses and absurdities of everyday life into sharp focus. 2) Humour is unstructured and ongoing, unlike jokes which have a setup and punchline. It focuses on ongoing relationships and perspectives rather than isolated events. 3) Humour has no shelf life because it reminds us of the constantly present absurdities of life, whereas jokes grow old once you've heard the punchline. 4) Humour derives from characters, especially narrators

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    Zia ul Islam wrote an English assignment for section B on September 9th, 2022 about the topic of humour. The document outlines 4 key points about humour: 1) Humour is an attitude or skewed point of view that brings the excesses and absurdities of everyday life into sharp focus. 2) Humour is unstructured and ongoing, unlike jokes which have a setup and punchline. It focuses on ongoing relationships and perspectives rather than isolated events. 3) Humour has no shelf life because it reminds us of the constantly present absurdities of life, whereas jokes grow old once you've heard the punchline. 4) Humour derives from characters, especially narrators

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    Name:Zia ul Islam

    Section:B

    Date:09/11/022

    English assignment

    Topic:Humour

     WHAT IS HUMOUR?

    As everyone knows, humour is subjective. Different people laugh or smile at different things.

    Nonetheless, it is possible to make some generalized statements about humour, especially as it

    compares with comedy. Here are some things that your students need to understand about humour in
    order to include it confidently and effectively in their writing:

     1:Humour is an attitude, a skewed point of view.


    Unlike the comedian, who tells jokes with

    punch lines, the humorist gives us special glasses to wear, enabling us to see everyday life as he or she
    perceives it by bringing its excesses, absurdities and incongruities into sharp focus. Instead of laughing at
    the unexpected, we are smiling at the familiar, as it is viewed through a humorist's lens.

     2. Humour is unstructured and ongoing.

    It does not rely on timing for its effectiveness, and it doesn't have the setup-wait-punch line of a joke.
    Whereas a joke might begin with three people walking into a bar, a humorous piece would direct our
    attention to the nature of the bar itself, and the existing relationships between the bar and its owner,
    the bar and its neighbours, and the bar and its clientele. Humour is ongoing. It's in place and fully
    operational long before the joke begins; and as long as we keep those glasses on, humour will continue
    making us smile long after the punch line fades from memory. That is why:

     3. Humour has no shelf life. Because comedy presents us with the unexpected - a surprising
    reaction by a character or an incongruous sequence of events-it can grow old. A joke is only
    funny if you haven't heard it before. Humour, on the other hand, reminds us of the constantly
    present absurdities of everyday life and is therefore ageless. We still laugh at the writings of
    humorists who lived long ago. Stephen Leacock, James Thurber and Mark Twain are but a few
    examples. Primarily, this is because:

     4. Humour derives from characters.

    Frequently this character is the narrator of the piece. sharing his or her off-the-wall perceptions of life.
    Sometimes the humorous character is found within a story, putting an absurd spin on what would
    otherwise be a simple and mundane sequence of events. The point is this: events can be unexpected,
    incongruous, even ridiculous, but events alone are not humorous; it's the people who initiate and
    participate in them, or who witness and report them, who make them that way.

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