Taking care of aging parents is often compared to the first years of raising a baby. The common opinion is that since our parents spend so much effort to provide us with everything necessary during out helpless years as children, we are to be responsible and provide equal quality of care to our elderly parents. The article called “Daddy Issues” written by Sandra Tsing Loh describes the author’s ordeals handling her very old, yet rather tough father. In her article, Tsing Loh employs irony, satire, and sarcasm as the main rhetoric devices that help her apply to the readers’ emotions such as sympathy and compassion since the subject of her writing is very complex, so the author is in need of deeper understanding. Tsing Loh’s “Daddy Issues” begins with a short description of a real life situation where she accidentally expresses her true feelings about the burden she is to carry taking care of her old father: “I WAAAAAAAANT MY FATHERRRRRR TO DIEEEEE!!!” (par. 1). The author makes a shocking claim that is a great attention grabber. After winning the reader’s interest Tsing Loh makes several references to the articles of other authors facing the problem of providing care to weak and seriously ill family members. This way, after employing pathos in the very first lines of her writing, Tsing Loh uses logos, or the appeal to reason, to persuade her readers that the situation she describes is common and has been addressed by other writers before. Further, the author moves on to vivid descriptions of her multiple troubles taking care of the aged parent; this helps her gradually gain more and more understanding and compassion from the readers. For better comprehension and likability, her writing is filled with humor expressed through three different rhetorical devices. One of the means of adding humor to one’s writing is irony that is referred to as the technique of using words to express something other than what they typically mean (“What Is Irony?” par. 5). Tsing Loh’s description of standard beginning of a story about troubles with aged parents commonly shared by her coworkers is very ironic: “Elderschadenfreude is the subtle frisson of the horror tale that always begins so simply (“Mom slipped in the shower—at first she said it was nothing”) but makes listeners raise eyebrows, nod knowingly, begin microwaving popcorn” (par. 26). The author’s last phrase (“begin microwaving popcorn”) is casually inserted into the list of normal reactions of the 40 to 50-year old audience to a story about an elderly parent in an accident to emphasize that even though they raise eyebrows and “nod knowingly”, they treat such stories as entertainment that is going to last for a while (hence the popcorn). Another case of irony is in tune with the first one; it is the last line leading to the main story that says, “prepare to enjoy” (Tsing Loh par. 26). The irony here is the hint that even though the story is generally bitter and quite dire, the audience is still going to enjoy it, as love for gossip about someone else’s troubles is a common vice. Apart from irony, there is another technique that targets people’s vices. This technique is called satire that is referred to as a rhetorical de