Four main expressive techniques of humorous art in children's literature

Contemporary children's literature mainly achieves the performance effect of humorous art through naive childlike interest, bizarre exaggeration, vague language and clever irony.

Children's interest is the basis of humor art in children's literature, which constitutes the basic characteristics that distinguish children's literary humor from general literary humor. It is reflected in the unique perspective of children's view of life and understanding of the world, and it is also reflected in the fact that children often confuse adults' arrangements for their lives.

Exaggeration is widely used in children's literature, especially in fairy tales, which is related to children's physical and mental acceptance characteristics to some extent. On the one hand, exaggeration reflects an instinctive tendency of children to observe and feel the world; On the other hand, the carnival experience brought by exaggeration also caters to children's game instinct. There are three kinds of exaggeration in children's literature: exaggeration of scale and exaggeration of degree and logic.

Polysemy is to create humorous artistic effect with the help of the fuzziness of language and the subtle relationship between different meaning levels such as contradiction, contrast, resistance and subversion. It has a certain nature of language game, but it is not only a formal game of language itself, but also closely related to its social context.

Satire is to create humorous artistic effect by exposing or criticizing the funny side of people, things and things. Although humor and satire are different in aesthetic taste, they are often used at the same time, combined or overlapped with each other in specific literary creation, showing a compound thought, attitude, method and aesthetic effect. Satire is the most common in fables. There are satirical techniques that use childlike innocence (innocent eyes and straightforward words in childhood) and gentle and sincere irony (expressing innocent and sincere childhood instead of adult's acerbity).