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Humor And Irony In 'Casey At The Bat'

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In the poem "Casey at the Bat" the author uses humor explain Casey's experiences while he is at the bat. He also uses irony. The author of "Casey At The Bat" uses both humor and irony to explain Casey's experiences when he is at the bat. The author uses all sorts of techniques when he wrote this poem. For example he use hyperbole, idioms, irony, humor and many more.

For example, the poem says '"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone in the stands; and it's likely they'd have killed him had Casey not raised his hand." When the author said this he was using humor, the people in the crowd were just mad and they would not have actually killed the umpire. An example of irony would be when everyone calls Casey the "Mighty Casey," because
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