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Download full textNwokah, Evangeline E.; Hernandez, Vanessa; Miller, Erin; Garza, Ariana – American Journal of Play, 2019
Language play is a key component of many children's popular graphic novels. The authors analyze the sound and word play in Dav Pilkey's illustrated Captain Underpants series. They argue that Pilkey's literary devices fall into two main areas of hyperbole and linguistic creativity and that Pilkey's language shifts the reader into a carnivalesque…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Play, Cartoons, Novels
