Rhetorical devices can be heard in our daily conversations. If
you ask my friends, you will know very well that I use sarcasm all the
time. Our laundry room in the
house was getting messy, and one of my housemates pointed it out. My response
was, “Oh really? I haven’t noticed even though I trip over clothes and slip on
plastic bags every time I walk through the laundry room. It’s not like I’m
scared for my life every time I walk through there in the dark nowadays.” She
got my point; the laundry room needs to get cleaned up by the ones who made the
mess.
Another rhetorical device is a hyperbole, and it’s used as
an exaggeration. In my Asian American Studies class, the professors always give
long lectures. After the class is over, I would turn to my friend and say,
“That lecture bored me to death.” Obviously, it was an exaggeration because I
did not literally die from that hour and fifteen minute lecture, even though it
was super boring and my brain probably didn’t process 2/3 of the information
spoken to us.
I use sarcasm in almost the exact same way in my fraternity house for similar reasons. Since our house is full of a bunch of dudes, the one trash can in our kitchen seems to get really full really quick. One day we were all in the kitchen cooking food while everyone was using the trash can while it was over flowing. After I threw something away it fell off the top of the trash, and said "I think its almost time to take out the trash... nahh, nvm". Everyone knew that I was being sarcastic so we all continued to joke about how the trash is full.
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