HW: Read “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “Lost in the Kitchen” in 50 essays. Analyze them for humor. How do the authors use specific details, hyperbole, and writing style to make you laugh (or at least smile?) Write a short blog post analyzing their styles of humor.
Me talk pretty ones day uses extreme humor in her interpretation of what the teacher is sayign in frech. SHe uses made up word spellings to show how she doesn' understandthe language. "Well you should ave been vkjsd more lsdkcds." The teacher says this to a girl in the class in france, but she only heard jibberish because she didn't understand what was being aid. That made me smile. I can relate because soemtimes when i hear a foreign language that is exactly what it osunds like to me.
Lost in kitchen uses exaggeraed truth that makes me smile. "but there is a famous law of physics that goes, 'you cannot watch small cildren and the detroit lions at the same time, and let's face it, the detroit lions are more interesting." Clearly there isn't a physics law taht says this, but it is amusing to think what it would be if men truly had a law for this. He makes use of stereoptypes ina funny way without trying to to belittle anyone. It appears that he is demeanign men more than omen for not helping out in the kitchen, so it seems to balance out He kind of pokes fun of himself.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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