- Pick a social convention/ life event:
- Turning 30 years old
- subject: a step by step process of growing old
- Exaggerate
- “your best years are behind you”
- ” I have not died today, but maybe tomorrow” – saying how death is catching up on ones self, but has not been caught yet.
- Thinks that their life is now over, the best part of their youth is gone
3. Understate: - “never ask a lady her age.” – describing oneself as extremely old, while in reality still being quite youthful
- Are expected to be an adult now, face certain social requirements that means they “must” become more formal
- lessons they have learned to now pass on