Lessons on Satire

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What is satire?

• The use of literary devices to create cinematic, rich images
• The use of incongruity, irony, parody, exaggeration to mock vices and folly
• The use of personification and metaphor to create a unified tone and theme
• A form of zeitgeist

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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The main purpose of Satire is to...

• Agree with something

• Make people laugh

• Criticize something

• To bring about change

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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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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

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The main character is hiding from the villain in the very where the villain is waiting for them. The audience yells at the TV for the hero to run.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

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What is Dramatic Irony

• When one thing is expected and the opposite happens

• When, we, the readers know what is going to happen but the characters do not.

• When one thing is said but the opposite is meant

• Sarcasm

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In Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the audience knows that the beast is in fact the prince, but Belle does not.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

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Which of the following is NOT an example of verbal irony?

• Calling a left handed person "Lefty."

• Giving the nickname "Shorty" to a tall person.

• Telling someone who is sick that they look great.

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Mother: "I see that you ironed your shirt."

Boy: "But I just dug it out of the hamper."

What type of irony is this?

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

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Parody

• generalization assigned to an entire group

• saying less than what is really meant

• things are absurd in relation to the surroundings

• imitation of a work of art or literature