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Humor

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Genre/Form termHumor
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Variant(s)Amusing works
Bons mots
Facetiae
Funny works
Humorous works
Humour
Jests
Jokes
Wit and humor
Witticisms
See alsoRecreational works
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Scope noteComical works intended to provoke laughter and provide amusement.
Found inGenre terms : a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging, via WWW, Aug. 5, 2014 (Humorous works (Gathering term; do not assign). Scope Note: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term. BT Purpose of work (Gathering term; do not assign). NT Burlesques; Caricatures; Cartoons; Comedies; Comic books; Comic histories; Epigrams; Fabliaux; Facetiae; Jestbooks; Minstrel jokes; Nonsense verse; Parodies; Pastiches; Satires)
Art & architecture thesaurus online, Aug. 5, 2014 (humor. UF humorous; humour; humourous. That quality in speech, writing, action, or situation that is amusing or appeals to a sense of what is absurdly incongruous, an oddity, jocular, facetious, comical, or fun.)
Reitz, J.M. ODLIS : online dictionary for library and information science, Aug. 5, 2014 (humor: A literary genre in which the author presents a story, poem, joke, etc., for the amusement of the reader.)