I will call it the "joke." The idea is that the second line must negate the first in a surprising way. I have written three four of them.
1.
I handle you carefully, like an antique book...
You are, in fact, an antique book.
2.
We can choose the attitude we take toward life, he said.
We threw him in a ditch.
3.
My eye doctor recommends artificial tears...
My real ones do just fine, thank you very much.
4.
Words can't tell you what cinnamon tastes like
not even the word cinnamon
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