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Humor In The Poem 'Casey At The Bat'
In the poem "Casey at the Bat" the author uses a lot of humor in this poem. the author use all types of figurative language to use humor. He also uses humor to describe Casey's experience in the poem.

the poem Casey at the bat is humors because there a lot of there is this baseball player named Casey and he thanks he is all that when he is not. close to the end when Casey is on his last strike it goes to a different setting it is humors because it comes out of the blue. Then the first time he struck out the crowed started yelling and the book stayed" that the crowed would have killed him if Casey did not put his hand up" that is funny because one person has so much power. Then at the beginning when there are introducing the other

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