Casey At The Bat Humor

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In the poem Casey at the Bat the author uses humor to describe Casey's experience. The author uses things like irony, metaphors, and exaggerations to make the poem humorous. The author uses many things to make thee poem humorous. These are some examples of humor from Casey at the Bat

Some humorous things from Casey at the Bat include irony, an example of irony from Casey at the Bat would be toward the end of the poem when the author explains Casey's face expressions and body language to make us think that Casey was going to hit the ball instead of striking out for the third time. This would be an example of situational irony because it was the opposite of what we thought was going to happen. The author also uses metaphors throughout

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