In the article, Vatican City Zoo Struggling To Breed First Angel In Captivity, written by the Onion, uses the rhetorical devices of satire and simile. These rhetorical devices provide for an engaging text that entices the reader to read on, while providing exaggerated comparisons and crude comments that appeal to the audience sense of humor.
The use of satirical strategies allows for a subject to be blown out of proportion, allowing the authors to add emphasis to their work, stressing specific topic so the reader will understand the point that they are trying to get across. In the text, Vatican City Zoo Struggling To Breed First Angel In Captivity, it states, "After months of failed attempts to coax their sole mating pair into conceiving, officials from the Vatican City Zoo admitted Wednesday that they were unsure whether the facility would ever successfully breed an angel in captivity.", so as seen in the text, they describe that humans have captured a pair of angels in hope to make them mate. The term "Angel" used in the text, represents a god's gift on humanity, similar to a light shining down from above in dark times. The use of this devices displays a desperate move from the zoo keepers as they imagine that without getting these two
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As found in the text, "'Our experience has been quite different with the Nephilim, which breed like rabbits'", which again compares the animals to angels that are a gift to us and in order to keep the species alive they need to breed, which adds emphasis to the need of the two angels to mate. Which they are having such a difficult time achieving, because unlike the angels the 'Nephilims' breed like rabbits, which repopulate in masses, which further drives this situation into a melancholy feeling of absolute