Casey At The Bat Analysis

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Ernest Lawrence Thayer creates a sense of anticipation for Casey getting his chance at bat through personification, hyperbole and alliteration that developed in the ballad “Casey at the Bat." First, personification was used when the outlook of the game was being discussed. As the game did not seem to be going well for the Mudville nine “a sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game” (4). Silence cannot be “sickly” hence, it was used to show readers that the game was not in favour of the Mudville nine. Thus, showing anticipation that hope must need to come their way. Next, hyperbole is also a poetic device used in this ballad. The patrons of the game believed that Casey was to get his chance at bat but “Blake tore the cover off the

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