Narrative Terms and Techniques

An understatement is when you deliberately exaggerate an issue.

• True

• False

True or False. For the satire to be effective, the satirist needs the public's help to change the "fool's" behavior.

• True

• False

I've told you a million times to write your name on the paper as soon as you get it. 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The main purpose of Satire is to...

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

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A critically, bitterly ironic statement, intended to cut or criticize its target

• Sarcasm
• Irony
• Satire
• Juxtoposistion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The outcome is opposite of what is expected to happen

• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• reversal
• caricature

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which idiom goes the best with this sentence?
It's time to take your turn.

• It's raining cats and dogs
• The ball is in your court
• Reach for the stars

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

His name is mud means...

• He is in trouble.
• His friends call him "Mud".
• He loves to play with mud.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

• caricature 
• irony 
• parody
• incongruency

What is verbal irony?

• When what is said is different than what is meant
• When what happens is the opposite of what is expected
• When the audience knows something a character doesn't know. 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10