After reading “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” answer the
following questions on your own paper.
1. How does Sedaris’s selection of detail in the first
paragraph establish a humorous tone?
2. Describe 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 in the essay?
4. Describe an instance each of irony and understatement.
How do they help to create humor in
the essay?
5. Explain the effect of the sarcastic remarks of the French
teacher.
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