Point of View-Sheila Moss

Sheila Moss has her own unique style of writing. She has a very humorous point of view. Several of her columns are about modern day things and her critiques on them (since she’s an old lady). Her columns often have a funny/intriguing title. For example, some of her columns are, “Speaking of Starbucks”, “Confessions of a Couch Potato” and “OED says OMG, FYI, LOL OK”. Just by reading Moss’ titles, you can tell that her pieces will be humorous and interesting as well, which gives her her unique humor point of view.

In two of Moss’ pieces, “Speaking of Starbucks” and “OED says OMG, FYI, LOL OK” she uses
exaggeration and sarcasm to enhance her humorous point of view. She writes about small subjects in a funny way. In her “Starbucks” column”, Moss describes her first experience drinking coffee from this joint and says, “Oh!My!Gosh! The caffeine hit my veins with a jolt! My eyes may never close again. Wow! That’s some powerful stuff. I won’t sleep for a month! Maybe never!” The use of exaggeration here adds to the column by making it funny in the sense that an old woman thinks she may never sleep for a month because of her cappuccino from starbucks. In “OED says OMG”, Moss uses the same technique. When critiquing the Oxford English Dictionary for allowing texting language to be actual words she says, “BTW (by the way), Google is both a proper noun and a verb these these days. Pretty soon it will probably be an adjective or an expletive.” This too, adds to Sheila’s humorous point of view in her columns because one, throughout her column, she uses texting abbreviations and at the same time she’s also critiquing them. And two, she makes a sarcastic comment on how maybe google will soon be not only a proper noun and a verb, but an adjective and expletive too.   Both Moss’ sarcasm and exaggeration add to the overall humor to her columns and make them enjoyable reads.