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Comic device used here: “If I tried to carry all that cargo in
my head it would make mestoop-shouldered.”
What is hyperbole?
Realism 600
Average people, bums,prostitutes, factory workers,
corrupt politicians
Who are people in realistic stories?
Mark Twain 600
Comic device used here: “…he’dhave slammed you through the
window and utterly ruined ahundred dollars worth of window sash and stuff.”
What is understatement?
Chopin 800
This type of critic would saythat Chopin’s story is about
a woman’s struggle forindependence.
What is feminist?
Mark Twain 800
Comic device used here: “…he would foller that straddle-bug
to Mexico but what he would find out where he
was bound for....”
What is hyperbole?
Chopin 1000
This type of critic would say that Chopin’s story is about
class struggle.
What is Marxist?
Mark Twain 1000
Comic device used here: “you'd see that frog whirling in
the air like a doughnut….”
What is comic metaphor