The poem Totally Like Whatever, You Know? by Taylor Mali is about today’s teenagers speaking mannerisms. It’s also about what he thinks it makes them sound like. He thinks that it makes them sound like they don’t care. Some examples from the poem are that they’re are putting question marks at the the end of statements that aren’t questions, and and are ending sentences with like “right?” and “totally”.
A form of satirical humour found in the poem was mockery. Taylor uses mockery to show the hilarity in what students sound like. A quote from the text, “because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true, okay, as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not—” . It mocks the way a person is talking and that they are not using
A form of satirical humour found in the poem was mockery. Taylor uses mockery to show the hilarity in what students sound like. A quote from the text, “because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true, okay, as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not—” . It mocks the way a person is talking and that they are not using