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Dave Barry Satire
Everyone has been given advice once in their life, at all ages. Dave Barry wrote a letter to his grandson with all the thing important knowledge and advice he believes his grandson should know. When writing this letter Dave had realized the most important thing he knows. In the article, “Dave Barry teaches his grandson life’s lessons - beginning with the ketchup”, Dave Barry uses high comedy in the form of sarcasm and hyperboles to prove that sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
When saying something he did not actually mean in the letter, Dave Barry used the element of humor, sarcasm. To illustrate, Barry was explaining to his grandson in the letter that you do not need to refrigerate ketchup and mustard causing him to say, “Am I saying

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