Acres and Pains | Techniques
The use of the Little Man persona is a technique in itself. Perelman's writing also is characterized by an ironic tone, first-person narration and monologue, a sense of values, parody, dialect humor, incongruous juxtaposition, a mixture of literal and figurative usages, and a combining of two or more fragments by superimposing one upon the other.
In addition, there are four principal stylistic components that are evident throughout virtually all of Perelman's prose: his use of cliches, his allusions, his use of puns, and his Yiddish background. In the humorist's writing some...
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