Hyperbole

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the is bat is about a man named Casey who plays baseball in the final inning. When things are not looking too good he steps up to the plate. The mighty Casey misses the ball three time and strikes out. The home team of Mudville is loses four to two. The poem communicates to its main idea, image, or message very well. From reading the whole poem you can tell that Casey plays baseball and gets striked out. In stanza nine you get the sense that…

In the satirized article The Onion, the author used very humorously and big meaningless vocabulary to describe how companies market their products and do almost anything in order to attract consumers. It used hyperbole, sarcasm and metaphors to satirize the advertisements of products. The article criticized the cliche technique companies use to market their products to consumers. Advertisers always seem to make unbelievable claims, use mendacious reviews from mendacious consumers and believe…

Evaluation of Sources Book- Aly, Götz, “Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygenie”,(John Hopkins University Press, England, August 1st 1994). I found this source relevant to a certain extent as it gave me a lot of useful background information about my chosen topic. I learned a lot about the experiments the were done in Nazi Germany during world war II. However it wasnt that helpful with finding out information on my specific doctor. One strength of this source was that it was…

In the song “When I Get Low I Get High” by Ella Fitzgerald, the lyrics include poetic devices such as consonance, repetition, ambiguity, personification. The hook of the song is “When I get low, oh, I get high” which contains symbolism and is a poetic device of repetition is also a form of ambiguity. Looking at this hook being repeated throughout the song in a voice that sounds cheerful and upbeat is trying to misguide listeners at first because it sound so energetic but in reality the mood and…

Greater Humor Through Differentiation Have you ever started reading a book, or a text, or an article, or any piece, and feel like you cannot put it away to undertake regular chores? Well, a text that elicits humor can significantly catch people’s attention and create great interests. The following two essays, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt and “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” by Dave Barry, in fact, stimulate immense humor. They can leave readers with prolonged giggling.…

Banneker carefully crafts his words to be extremely persuasive by using a hyperbole. He states, “thus shall your hearts be enlarged with kindness and benevolence towards them, and thus shall you need neither the direction of myself or others, in what manner to proceed herein” (Banneker 50-53). Your heart will not literally enlarge…

“I’d rather stick my hands in a dog’s mouth than in a nigger’s,” (Angelou 186). In the autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Marguerite, Maya’s real name, is often told that because of her race, she is worthless. Angelou experiences racism and oppression throughout the novel extensively, but after analyzing it through a postcolonial lens, it becomes clear that race and the oppression one faces does not have to stop them from thriving. Despite what one is told throughout…

television and warns against the authoritarian government which manufactures and thrives on this ignorance. Moreover, Vonnegut’s scepticism for the propaganda which dictated the broader society’s view of the communist threat is conveyed through the hyperbole, “She fired twice and [they] were dead before they hit the floor”…

How do Fountain and Tanovic use features unique to their text type to critique the nature of contemporary warfare? Within their respective works, both Fountain and Tanovic expose the reality of contemporary warfare as an untold story of tragedy that is manipulated for personal agendas. They highlight that as a result of false narratives being created for personal agendas, the traditional war genre misrepresents the cyclical and inconclusive nature of contemporary warfare, as well as its…

Governments do share a common trait with God. The idea of a government is something that has been around since the dawn of man and has been discussed and debated about for about just the same number of years. One form of discussion is through satire like South Park. "Let Go Let Gov" is an example of an episode of the show that makes a point about people's thoughts about the government and certain actions of the government. The creators take a stance against those who are too doubtful of the…