Humor In Richard Peck's Priscilla And The Wimps

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As William Arthur Ward once said, “A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to you're steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” Such as humor and laughter helps us in our life, it can lead to humorous situations in snap shots of the overall story. Richard Peck's “Priscilla and the Wimps” is a high and low level comedic short story that uses comic characterization, comic situations, and the incongruity theory to engage the reader in a humorous manner.
In the third paragraph, Peck uses hyperboles to describe a comic characterization in high level humor. In his story, Peck describes the leader of the bullies, Monk Clutter, in an exaggerated and descriptive way. This makes his (Monks) attire seem as the typical ‘I’m a bully’

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