Casey at the Bat uses many literary devices that add humor to this poem. The author used humor to enhance the experiences, good or bad to the reader. Very few times the point the author is trying to make is very apparent but is funny when the readers slow down appreciate it. Ernest Thayer used humor that most people would just skip over.Also in a way that makes fun of some of the characters.
One of the first noticeable parts of figurative language is a hyperbole,"And then when Cooney died at first,and Barrows did the same." It's humorous because the baseball player, Cooney did not actually die at the first base. This adds just a bit of humor that many people would take for granite. another noticeable literary device is a metaphor, Ernest
