In the article from the Onion, the author satirizes how products are marketed to customers using outrageous claims, and exaggeration in order to mock how easy it is to get across to customers and sell the product. The author first uses the outrageous claims when they mention the “Semi-plausible medical technique known as reflexology”, here they are admitting that the technique may not be reliable, but they add more filler into the paragraph just to make it sound good like “Practiced in the occident for over eleven years”. Here the author is satirizing the marketing tactics that use all the studies and complex terminology as their sales pitch. The author wants the reader to know that this is one way they sell their products. The author also
