Which of the following quotes indicates omitted text? "You could go crazy thinking of how public our lives really are—the omnipr
esent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean. "You could go crazy thinking of how public our lives really are—[the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones,] the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean. "You could go crazy thinking of how public [sic] our lives really are—the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean. "You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are...the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean.
Humor writing is a piece of fiction or nonfiction written with the express purpose of being funny. How it strikes a humorous chord and the resulting laughs (or groans) it produces depends on the piece. For example, a piece may be satirical without necessarily being laugh-out-loud funny.
