Satire/Drama/New Testament Quiz

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

The main purpose of Satire is to...

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

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

Satire is

• drawing a conclusion based on facts.
• taking advantage of someone or something for one own's benefit.
• a form of speech which contains an expression of less strength than what would be expected. In satire, the understated language may be ironic.
• provoking change or reform through poking fun at society's vices

To present opposite of normal order (order of events, hierarchical order, etc)

• hyperbole
• parody
• reversal
• situational irony

exaggerating a subject to make it seem important

• understatement
• 
  allusion
• incongruity
• hyperbole

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

This poetic device gives human traits to non-human things.

• personification
• repetition
• metaphor
• parallelism 

Which of the following is NOT a character in the introduction chapters of Proverbs?

• A father

• A queen

• A son

• Lady Wisdom

The book of Proverbs ends with a poem about:

• A man after God's own heart

• A wise woman

• King Solomon

• The prophet Elijah