Week 5 Post A

VOCAB-

pundit: a learned person, expert, or authority.

corroborated: to make more certain; confirm.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE-

1) " You can always pull yourself up by your bootstraps or turn the lemons life has given you into lemonade"(164). Here is a metaphoric phrase being used to describe what the lower class can do in terms of bringing themselves up to the upper class. It's saying that you have to make something out of what life has given you no matter how small, and that you have to bring yourself up from a lower class situation by taking charge and initiative.

2) "They could easily freeze out the poor and man their factories with robots or mice"(165). This is also a sort of metaphor. Colbert is saying the upper class could "freeze" out the lower class, and it is an un-human like characteristic and more a of nature characteristic given to humans. Could possibly also be viewed as personification.

3) "Za-bang!" Another onomatopoeia used to draw the attention with others. Colbert uses this onomatopoeia when discussing the communist Mont Sinclair and some of his very communist-like jokes and uses these onomatopoeias to draw humor and attention to the reader.

QUOTE-

" All day in class, I would think about what my dad did for us, how hard he worked, and that I never wanted to do any of that. I wanted to be the local rich guy. Today, I am"(161). Colbert discusses the financial classes in society, and he is not shy to let people now hi financial status, like in this quote. Here, it is humorous, but most wouldn't or shouldn't go around announcing that to others. So it is interesting to see him not ashamed or humble about what kind of money he makes, because most normally keep that to themselves, with the exception of a few.

THEME-

No surprise that there is lack of an emerging theme. The same theme of personal opinions on hot topics, and Colbert's beyond boundaries discussion and opinion of basic life matters