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=== Other works by James Thurber provide examples of: === |
=== Other works by James Thurber provide examples of: === |
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* [[Alliteration]] |
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* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]] |
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''Fables for Our Times'' parodies Aesop's Fables-type moral stories; "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much" parodies the [[Hardboiled Detective]] story |
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''Fables for Our Times'' parodies Aesop's Fables-type moral stories; "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much" parodies the [[Hardboiled Detective]] story |
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* [[Aint No Rule]] |
* [[Aint No Rule]] |
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* [[Attractive Bent Species]]: Clode [[Carnivore Confusion|has trouble]] with this in ''The White Deer''. |
* [[Attractive Bent Species]]: Clode [[Carnivore Confusion|has trouble]] with this in ''The White Deer''. |
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* [[Cassandra Truth]] |
* [[Cassandra Truth]] |
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* [[Completely Missing the Point]] |
* [[Completely Missing the Point]] |
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* [[Criminal Doppelganger]]: "The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl" |
* [[Criminal Doppelganger]]: "The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl" |
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* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: What the Big Bad in ''[[The Wonderful O]]'' threatens Littlejohn's parrot with: "I'll squck its thrug till all it can whubble is geep!" |
* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: What the Big Bad in ''[[The Wonderful O]]'' threatens Littlejohn's parrot with: "I'll squck its thrug till all it can whubble is geep!" |
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* [[Engagement Challenge]]: ''The White Deer'' |
* [[Engagement Challenge]]: ''The White Deer'' |
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* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: Many, particularly ''The White Deer''. |
* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: Many, particularly ''The White Deer''. |
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* [[Mental Story]]: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". |
* [[Mental Story]]: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". |
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* [[Mr. Imagination]]: Walter Mitty, again. |
* [[Mr. Imagination]]: Walter Mitty, again. |
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* [[Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List]]: In the children's book ''Many Moons'', the king's three advisors carry lists of all of the matters they have been consulted on. As each one reads out his list, all have added grocery items their wives wanted the advisors to pick up that day. |
* [[Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List]]: In the children's book ''Many Moons'', the king's three advisors carry lists of all of the matters they have been consulted on. As each one reads out his list, all have added grocery items their wives wanted the advisors to pick up that day. |
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* [[Pirate Parrot]]: The pirate Littlejohn in ''The Wonderful O'' has a parrot that annoys the book's [[Big Bad]] (by using words containing the letter "O"). |
* [[Pirate Parrot]]: The pirate Littlejohn in ''The Wonderful O'' has a parrot that annoys the book's [[Big Bad]] (by using words containing the letter "O"). |
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* [[Power Fantasy]]: Walter Mitty. |
* [[Power Fantasy]]: Walter Mitty. |
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* [[Put Me in Coach]] (subverted) |
* [[Put Me in Coach]] (subverted) |
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