Abstract
American humor is a mirror that reflects American culture to a certain extent. To help enhance readers’ understanding, corresponding methods are introduced as shown in the detailed analysis of writing skills and characteristics that involve pun, anticlimax, incongruous juxtaposition, comic simile and comic metaphor, comic definition, trick, understatement, antithesis, irony, malapropism, hyperbole. As for appreciation of American humor, three aspects discussed are appropriate psychological distance, perceiving incongruity, and commanding reading rhythm.
Highlights
With a deep insight and unique artistic skills, American humorists have revealed to us the American image and the panorama of American society
The reasons are that we know little about its culture, its characteristic as well as its manifestation and that we are in lack of the corresponding methods and psychology to appreciate it
Hyperbole is one of the characteristics of writing skills, whereas the characteristic of American humor is striking in reflecting American culture or its native features
Summary
With a deep insight and unique artistic skills, American humorists have revealed to us the American image and the panorama of American society. We will detail the analysis of writing skills, characteristics of American humor and the required methods to appreciate it
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