Well, now that I'm done taking finals in AP classes, I've begun to catch up on my over-one-month-long Daily Show and Colbert Report backlog on Tivo. And, this afternoon, I got to a funny clip on the Colbert Report with actor Sean Penn in which the two engage in a metaphor-off. Actually, that whole week Colbert prepared on the air by using metaphors as well as other literary devices such as hyperbole and allusion, but the culmination of this act ended in his face-off with Penn. Check out the video clip yourself. Click here.
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sorry, that link isn't complete. try this ugly one:
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Posted by: Charlie B. | May 07, 2007 at 09:30 PM
I found that successful shows, books, videos, etc all use literary devices because the make things intersting or funny. When we laugh its usually at some kind of irony or hyperbole. Maybe literary devices are so bad we dont know they are there. Maybe we shoudl learn about them in a differnt form?
Posted by: ben L | May 30, 2007 at 11:00 PM