Firstly, college graduates are finding it to take longer and longer to find jobs even with their sparkling new degree. The onion portrays this with their verbal irony and understatement. This article uses boatloads of understatement when referring to how hard it is to receive the perfect job after graduating college. The article understates the time it takes, if the wage is even enough to pay the bills, and if the job is even in the area a person has been studying for four or more years. One example of the understatement used is, “before you secure the perfect job in the field of your choosing that exceeds even your wildest expectations” (Bolton). The entire article is verbal irony because the author means that it will take years, not weeks,
