Humor appears in all forms of literature, from drama to poetry to fiction. a humorous essay is a short, funny work of nonfiction. it requires literary skill and the use of specific strategies to translate the comedy of everyday life into amusing works of writing. humor writers may use hyperbole to make written works funny. what is hyperbole?
a. a very fast moving plot.
b. an exaggeration or outrageous overstatement.
c. expressions in which the literal meanings of the words do not add up to the actual meaning (“raining cats and dogs” = downpour).
d. a story with large amounts of dialogue.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts