In Dave Barry's Essay A Couple Of Really Neat Guys

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At one time in life you have witnessed the horror of someone littering. If not, then I am sure that you have littered yourself. During this essay a man describes his experience of cleaning up the streets of Miami and ridding them of some litterbugs. In this essay, “A Couple of Really Neat Guys,” Dave Barry uses hyperbole and clever wordplay to reveal the universal truth about littering. To reveal the rudeness of littering, Barry uses hyperbole to get his point across. For example, he explains how some people that go to the beach with large families have a “large nuclear powered radio”(Barry 325). Clearly these families don’t actually have nuclear powered radios, but he wanted to get his point across that they played very loud and obnoxious