Onion Summary

In the article from the Onion the author satirizes how products are marketed to customers by using outrageous claims with complex diction, while carcturizing how companies pitch their products, in order to illustrate how easy it is to sell their products to the consumers. To begin, the article is filled with outrageous claims. For instance, when the author says things like “Harnesses the power of magnetism to properly align the biomagnetic field around your foot” and “Semi-Plausible medical technique known as reflexology”, they are mimicking the complex diction used in advertisements. The advertisement even admits that it may not be reliable, but as long as there is some type of scientific terminology it will sell. The filler used in these