LITERALLY DEVICES IN "It is funny, you will be dead someday"
Irony - The poet E. E. Cummings displays irony in the poem "It is Funny you'll be Dead Someday". In the first very first line, Cummings makes the statement, "It's funny, you will be dead some day." Hearing that statement is normally serious and not funny, but he writes this to get people to think of death less serious and more of just an event that happens.
Hyperbole - Cummings practice the literary use of hyperbole by including the line, "All the days and nights that matter." He wrote this exaggeration to show that every single thing dies, so someone's death shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Hyperbole - Cummings practice the literary use of hyperbole by including the line, "All the days and nights that matter." He wrote this exaggeration to show that every single thing dies, so someone's death shouldn't be that big of a deal.