Satire and other devices

Satire and other devices

By Nakiya Beaman

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How does satire attempt to improve individuals or society?

• By modeling correct thought and behavior
• By ridiculing flaws and follies
• By praising achievements and honors
• By explicitly explaining the difference between right and wrong

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The main purpose of Satire is to...

• Agree with something
• Make people laugh
• Criticize something
• To bring about change

Methods

• Exaggeration: To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.

• Incongruity: To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings.

• Reversal: To present the opposite of the normal order (e.g., the order of events, hierarchical order).

• Parody: To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing.

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To present things that are out of place or absurd.

• sarcasm

• incongruity

• understatement

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To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen

• exaggeration 
• understatement
• situational irony 
• satire

Verbal Irony

• When someone says one thing but actually means the opposite. For example, when your mom walks into your filthy bedroom and says, "I see you've cleaned your room!"

• To find the verbal irony, ask yourself "what is really being said?" If what the person actually says is not exactly what the person really means, you likely have verbal irony.

Situational Irony

• When the outcome of a situation is not what is logically expected to happen. It is the opposite of what you expect. An examples of situational irony would be a police officer robbing a bank.

• To find the situational irony, ask yourself "what were you expecting to happen?" If the situation is something different or the opposite of what you might expect, then it is likely situational irony.

Dramatic Irony

• When the audience or the reader is aware of something that the character does not know. For example, when watching a movie the audience knows where the killer is hiding although the characters in the movie do not.

• To identify dramatic irony, ask yourself "what did you already know that someone involved in the situation/story did not know?"

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An ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, hopefully, to save her life. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance is hit by a semi-truck, and everyone onboard the ambulance is killed.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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What of the following is an example of situational irony?

• The cat ran away from the dog.

• It was sunny outside and Mr. Jordan told everyone about how beautiful the weather was.

• A vampire loves to eat garlic.

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Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?

• A mother expects her children to do well in school and they all make the honor roll.

• A man meets his long-lost son and doesn't know it, although the audience does know.

• A little girl can see in the future.

• A teacher tells her students they did well on a test when they actually all failed.

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The son of a police chief is arrested for attempted burglary?

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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Situational Irony

• When the speaker says one thing but means another

• When the audience knows something the character does not

• When the opposite of what is expected is happen in a situation.

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Verbal Irony

• When the audience knows something the character does not.

• When the speaker says one thing but means another.

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens in a situation.

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Dramatic irony

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens.

• When the audience knows something the character does not.

• When the speaker says one thing but means the opposite.

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A firehouse burns down.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

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A man who needed medical assistance is run over by an ambulance.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

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A marriage counselor files for divorce.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

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Saying "Oh fantastic!" when the situation is actually very poor.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

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In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and the audience knows the killer in the house.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

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Which of the following is NOT is not one of the essential elements of satire?

• Making fun of an idea, person, or institution
• Use of irony
• Making a broader point about society, culture, politics, etc.
• All of the above are essential elements

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What satirical technique is being employed in this satire about the future?

• Exaggeration

• Irony

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What satirical technique is being employed?

• Exaggeration

• Irony

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What satirical technique is being employed?

• Exaggeration

• Irony

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Why is this ironic? 

• It is not ironic.
• People go to the gym to burn calories, not be lazy. 
• Fitness is misspelled. 
• The escalators are not working. 

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Jimmy “the Lock” was a master safe cracker. He could bust open any safe in the world in under an hour using a crow bar, stethoscope, drill, and sledgehammer. No lock could hold Jimmy, and that's why they called him "the Lock." Jimmy was scheduled to do a six-year stretch in Statesville for a bank job that got messy in suburbs, but he picked the lock to his cell and escaped. Now Jimmy was set up to get

the score of his life. He had the blueprints all laid out to do a job on an armored car diamond delivery. Gathering up all of his tools and gear, Jimmy headed out the door to meet his contact, Bobby the Rat. But when he got to his car, he couldn't find his keys. He patted down his pockets before he realized that he must have left them on his dresser. Jimmy went back to get his keys, but the door wouldn't open. Jimmy “the Lock” had locked himself out of his house and missed his opportunity to catch the

armored car.

• satire

• sarcasm

• situational irony

• understatement