Neither Here Nor There: Travels In Europe, By Bill Bryson

In his short story “Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe,” Novelist, Bill Bryson uses hyperboles and repetition to convey a farcical tone in his trip to Luxemburg. The purpose of Bryson’s whimsical story is to show to the people of the western world that not everything is the same everywhere. Not all cultures are the same around the world, and even Europe can be drastically different from what we think is normal in the U.S.
One of the most used devices of rhetoric the Bryson employs is the overabundant use of repetition. Throughout the entire story there is repetition in almost every other line and it seems that he intends this to be. He invests the the base foundation of rhetoric in repetition and then places other devices of rhetoric