TEXT: You’re 100% Wrong About… Seafood
The text “You’re 100% Wrong About… Seafood” is about a person who despises seafood, and uses hyperbole as the main language feature to convey his perspective towards the food. Hyperbole is a term where over-exaggeration is used, mainly to emphasise a point. “I have, I really have, it’s just that it tastes, well, disgusting. Actually that doesn’t quite go far enough, it also smells pretty disgusting too, even from an impressive distance” As seen in this quote the writer uses hyperbole to over exaggerate his hatred towards seafood which helps convey the idea that he really dislikes it. The writer shows that he doesn’t even want to be near seafood. Alan Perrott, the writer of this text, wishes that he liked seafood as it would place him in a more comfortable place in society. “But the thing is that I really wished I liked it, loved it even, because life would be so much easier and I wouldn’t have to have the same old conversation every time I turned down a prawn cocktail.” Alan shows in this quote that he would feel more at ease if he liked seafood. Most other people like seafood, so if he liked it he believed he would fit in more.