In the essays Lost in the Kitchen by Dave Barry and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, both authors make use of several rhetorical literary techniques to enhance their work, such as creating specific tones for the essays and using stereotype. These techniques add humor to each essay, and Barry and Sedaris’s use of humor makes each essay comprehensible and relatable. However, the authors use the types of humor in various ways. Barry and Sedaris use tone and stereotype to give a sense of humor to their respective essays, but how they use tone differs in a few ways. In Lost in the Kitchen, Barry begins his essay by putting a massive stereotype out on the table: “Men are scum in the kitchen.” He basically states men cannot cook and their
