Humor And Irony-Personal Narrative

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Throughout my personal narrative, I tried to tell my story in a humorous and at sometimes sarcastic tone. I express the physical harm that I endure from the mere altercation between me and toys with comedy relief to take attention off of my actual pain, and instead focus on the humor of the way the pain was being inflicted. For example, in my writing I used this strategy in situations such as “As I kicked and screamed for my life from the dreadful pain that had erupted in my cheek, my babysitter slowly started to open her eyes and then shut them again as if she had hit the snooze button on my pain.” I’m clearly in a lot of gruesome pain, but in order to help the reader identify with my feelings, I use humor to disregard my pain and focus on

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