ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY

Individual Response

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Partner Response

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE

Please provide your response on a separate sheet of paper.In his memoir, Me Talk Pretty One Day, author David Sedaris provides a lighthearted recollection of his experience in a French language immersion class.

In a formal paragraph, explain which literary device from the style guide achieves the greatest comic effect and why. Be sure to provide examples.

PARTNER RESPONSE #1

How does Sedaris’s selection of detail in the first paragraph establish a humorous tone?

#2

Find at least one example of hyperbole in the essay. What is the effect created through exaggeration?

#3

Identify examples of Sedaris’s ethnic references. What is their effect? How does Sedaris maintain the fine line between being humorous and being offensive?

#4

Explain the effect of the sarcastic remarks of the French teacher.