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In this era of rising individuality, anyone can express their thoughts through writing.
There are more and more people writing articles, and at the same time, the reading environment of most readers is often fragmented, so how to quickly attract readers’ attention and attention has become the key.
Good-looking skins are the same, but interesting souls are one in a thousand. In fact, the same is true for good articles.
Distinctive, tasteful, and humorous articles can often effectively stimulate readers’ desire to read, trigger sharing and dissemination, and then make your articles stand out among the massive information.
Topic of this issue: How to make the article interesting? Let the readers put it down, the skills of shaping the sense of humor in writing.
A Common Technique for Creating a Sense of Humor in Writing
1 Contrary to expectations, God’s turning point
The previous part of the article lays the groundwork to guide readers into inertial thinking and substitute into familiar scenes. Sometimes there is also a part that strengthens the foreshadowing, which is used to continue to strengthen and guide the reader’s expectations.
In the latter part, there is a sudden turning point, and the result is completely different from the reader’s initial expectation, resulting in a gap and a sense of humor.
If expressed as a formula:
Guide readers’ expectations + strengthen expectations + God’s turn
A commonly used routine is: first rise and then rise, or first suppress and then rise, first to shape a direction for readers, and then take a sharp turn, bringing a sense of humor.
2 misinterpretation
The two routines that are often used here are: homonym and polysemy.
① Harmonic misinterpretation
Create a cognitive gap through homophones and near-phonetic characters between words, thereby creating a sense of humor.
② Semantic misinterpretation
Through the polysemy of a word, the two sides can have different understandings, and then create an interesting feeling.
3 Rhetorical techniques, using expressions to shape a sense of humor
① Compare
anthropomorphism, writing things as if they were people
Skeuomorphism, writing people as things
Give things to people’s feelings, language, actions, and psychology, and through personalized expressions, make the article more vivid, vivid, and full of emotion, and then make readers feel interesting.
This anthropomorphic thing can be living, non-living, or even a concept.
② Praise words are used in derogatory terms, big words are used in small ways, and small words are used in a big way
Through the reverse use of different words, humorous interest is produced.
③ metaphor
Metaphor is a rhetorical device that we often use in writing. In fact, figurative and pictorial metaphors can sometimes create unexpected effects.
④ Time Shift
Use the language, action and thinking of modern people to describe the ancients, allusions, write new ideas, and generate different interests.
⑤ irony, exaggeration
Irony can also create a sense of humor through irony, absurdity, and exaggeration.
⑥ Analogy example
In writing, sometimes we need to explain some concepts and answer some questions. At this time, if you can use analogy thinking and give some visual examples, it will not only facilitate readers’ understanding, but also make your articles more interesting.
⑦ imitation
By adapting famous quotes, ancient poems, popular songs, Internet catchphrases, etc., you can also create a sense of humor.
4 stems
The stalk here can also be called a point of complaint or a point of laughter. And that’s the part that makes us laugh.
Stories about news hotspots, about characters, and places worth complaining about in life, after exaggerated processing, can all become some humorous jokes.
Using the above skills well, coupled with the familiar stalks of readers, can often make people laugh.
Two points that make the article interesting
1 The title is interesting and attracts clicks
The title largely determines the opening rate of the article. A good title should fit the theme of the article, have resonance, and be interesting at the same time, making readers want to click on it as soon as they see it.
2 Interesting pictures, a picture is worth a thousand words
Sometimes, words may not be able to describe what you want to express, but an interesting picture can often quickly reflect the artistic conception you want to express.
3 interesting characters, interesting dialogue
We are often impressed by the interesting characters in many works.
Through interesting dialogue, the spats between characters can also effectively create a sense of humor.
4 interesting storylines
People are naturally drawn to stories, especially funny ones.
Through dramatic conflicts and dramatic reversals, readers can turn from the expectation of familiar inertial thinking to the unexpected, and then suddenly realize it, creating a sense of humor.
Three Notes on Creating a Sense of Humor in Writing
1 Choose different styles and expressions according to your audience
Different groups of people often have different sensitivities to different styles and jokes. This requires us to do user research and analysis before writing.
Young people have young people’s stalks, and old people have old people’s stalks. Your expression should be close to your readership.
2 How to find inspiration for humor
① Read more jokes and accumulate them from time to time
②Record interesting things in your life
③ Record what you see
3 Be innovative, don’t keep using old stalks
No matter how good something is, if you eat it three or five times in a row, it will lose its taste.
If the same routine is used too much, readers are often immune to it, and sometimes it will make people feel deliberate, artificial, and produce the opposite effect.
4 How to improve your ability to create a sense of humor
① Watch more, collect more jokes, interesting stalks, and build your own material library.
② Disassemble the jokes and summarize the routines.
When reading a joke, you can’t forget it after reading it, but you should think about it with a dismantling attitude, thinking about how people create a sense of humor, what routines are used, and what are the stalks? What techniques and stalks can be applied to your writing.
Disassemble the jokes and interesting articles, and summarize the routines from them. With more dismantling, you can quickly write a lot of jokes yourself.
③ imitation, training, improvement
When writing, you have to think about how to guide readers and trick readers, such as deliberately misleading readers, and then there will be a big turning point later. The focus here is on the continuous accumulation of humor skills and the continuous training of expressive skills.
Summarize
Humor can create a relaxed atmosphere for readers and make the article more interesting to read.
In writing, we can shape the point of laughter by guiding readers’ expectations, strengthening expectations, and turning around.
Create a gap in cognition through distorted homonyms and semantics, thereby creating a sense of humor.
At the same time, rhetorical expressions can also make your article more interesting, such as comparison, metaphor, praise and derogation, big words and small words, time shifting, irony, exaggeration, analogy examples, imitation and so on.
When building a sense of humor, pay attention to using targeted expressions according to your readership, and don’t reuse the same stalk.
Finally, if you want to improve your sense of humor, the key is to watch more, collect more, disassemble, summarize routines, and constantly improve your ability in this area through imitation and deliberate training.
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