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What do you call this writing style? It's like kind of clever and a little funny but I'm not sure what I'd call it
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>>25388549
Shakespearean. Puns, wordplay, double entendres; seriously, just read Love's Labour's Lost and marvel at how Shakespeare did Carroll before Carroll.
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>>25388549
Light verse
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>>25388549
Mix of nonsense verse and absurdist literature (though the latter in not quite the modern sense of 'absurdist'). A lot of people classify the whole thing as nonsense literature but it really isn't.
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>>25388549
Milne is a way better writer and he actually writes funny jokes instead of this shlock of just over the top bullshit.
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>>25388564
I think you meant A Midnight Summer's Dream...



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