Casey At The Bat Humor

In the poem, "Casey at the Bat"," the author uses different types of humor to describe and write the poem. He uses humor to make the poem more interesting and to describe the events that happen throughout the poem. He wrote it like this so it wouldn't be boring and to the point.

In the poem it says, "And Blake, the despised one, tore the cover off the ball." This type of humor is a hyperbole. Instead of saying he hit the ball hard, he uses a hyperbole so the poem isn't as boring. It also says, "And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air." He says this because if he said the baseball, it would be boring and to the point. His techniques make the reader want to read more and more because he describes and talks about things