WORDS
1.Lunacy
Joseph Heller and Stanley Kubrick heightened the truth about war just enough to catch its lunacy, and we recognize it as lunacy.
If you describe someone as lunacy,you mean they are foolish.
Eg. Quitting her job was an act of sheer/pure lunacy. [=madness]
Quitting her job was lunacy.
It would be lunacy [=madness] to try driving home in this storm.
His idea was considered total/sheer/complete lunacy.
仿写：It is so lunacy for him to take off his shoes at class.
2.Jolt
You’ve been jolted by humor into looking with a fresh eye at something bizarre in our daily environment that was previously
taken for granted.
（1）If something jolts,it moves quickly and suddenly.震动
Eg.The explosion jolted the ship.
He was jolted forward when the bus stopped suddenly.
（2）to shock or surprise 震惊
Eg.She jolted the medical world with her announcement.
仿写：Charles Darwin’s work jolted the scientific field at that time.
文中是第二种意思。你会对幽默给予生活中司空见惯事物的新视角而感到震惊。
jog和jolt可以结合记忆
3.Outlandish
Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it’s still outlandish.
If you describe something is outlandish, you disapprove of it because you think it is too strange,unusual and unreasonable.
Eg. They appeared at parties in outlandish clothes...
他们穿着奇装异服参加各种聚会。
仿写：The youngsters are fond of the outlandish style these days.
Syn:lunacy ,Bizarre 不同的是，outlandish贬义的意思更强一些
4.elusive
Unfortunately for writers, humor is elusive and subjective. No two people think the same things are funny.
If you describe something as elusive,you mean it is hard to find,remember or achieve.难以捉摸的
Eg. Pigeon cartel is one of the most elusive of criminal gangs.
鸽子黑帮是这些犯罪团伙里最难捉的一群。
The answer existed. It was there. Hidden, elusive, but waiting to be found. (…) And Vincent Lord, after ten years' searching, believed he was close to that elusive answer. 答案是有的。它就在那里，似在非在，但是的确在等待人家找到它。
仿写：It is so elusive to find a way to explain the pathology of the Major Depression.
special angle of vision 特殊视角
REFLECTION
The writer must find some comic device— satire, parody, irony, lampoon, nonsense—that he can use to disguise his serious point.
漫画种经常使用，讽刺，愚弄（戏谑地模仿），嘲讽，挖苦，说无意义的话等手法来伪装一个严肃的话题。我们在写作中，使用幽默，也可以借鉴漫画中这样的写法。
It seems to me misleading. Humor is a by- product that occurs in the serious work of some and not others.
而我们要认清的是，幽默只是你在描述一件严肃事情中出现的副产品。所以不要以为幽默会让你的文章显得不正式，他只不过是让你的论点更有力的一种表现手法。
Therefore I suggest several principles for the writer of humor:
1.Master the craft of writing good “straight” English; humorists from Mark Twain to Russell Baker are, first of all, superb writers.
从幽默大师的文章中学习。
2. Don’t search for the outlandish and scorn what seems too ordinary; you will touch more chords by finding what’s funny in what you know to be true.
不要试图去寻找那些过于夸张的幽默，你会发现，真实的事件往往更能让人产生共鸣。
3.Finally,don’t strain for laughs; humor is built on surprise, and you can surprise the reader only so often.
不要费力去讲笑话，幽默基于惊讶。