Dave Barry’s anecdote “I’ve got a Few Pet Peeves about Sea Creatures” is a high level comedy that uses clever word play and sarcasm to reveal a universal truth about pets. The author uses high comedy because it is hard to understand sometimes. The funny things he says are like “displaying the vital signs of an ashtray”(Barry 3). In the story he talks about how all pets will die, and they will not last forever. In the story Barry tries to convey the truth with sarcasm and clever word play. He says “It wasn't easy to tell that scooter passed away into the big pond in the sky,where he would decompose and be food for the zucchini”(Barry 3). So he would always try to cover the death of a pet up with some excuse. When his daughters Beetle died he
