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| | The UVic Writer's Guide: Humour |
 | | The term humour is used to refer to anything comical in literature; in terms of characters, it includes their appearance, behaviour, and speech. |
 | | The humorous differs from the witty mainly in that wit applies to speech alone; moreover, humorous language is not artfully phrased, and the amusement it arouses can be unintentional. |
 | | In the medieval and renaissance periods, "humour" referred to the four major qualities of the human body, corresponding to the four elements, which determined human personality (choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine). |
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