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Individual Response & Partner Response Me Talk Pretty One Day Individual Response & 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.