In the poem, "Casey At The Bat" the author uses humor to describe and tell us Caseys expirence. The author uses hyperboles, and other figurative language to tell the story.

The story starts out at a baseball game, which Caseys team is loosing. As caseys other team mates approach the plate, they get the bases loaded, which makes the reader think that casey is going to hit a home run, which will bring in all the players and they will win the game. The humor in the story starts right around when Casey goes up to bat and doesn't hit a home run like everyone, including the reader, thinks.

When Casey first steps up to bat, in paragraph 6, the crowd begins to shout and scream for him. With all this cheering and commotion it makes the reader think