✍🏽ap english language review

Humor

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A rhetorical strategy using wit, irony, or comedy to engage an audience, build rapport, and make a message more persuasive or memorable.

AP course connection

Topic 8.4: 8.4 Considering how style affects an argument

Unit 8