Satire

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

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Satire is a term that only applies to literature.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

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

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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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the four strategies of satire refers to imitating another’s technique or style?

• Hyperbole
• Reversal
• Inversion
• Parody

Hyperbole is…

• A figure of speech which uses exaggeration
• A type of simile
• A figure of speech which uses understatement
• A type of metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

A literary technique where that author has characters say or do things in a way that the reader knows is ironic, but the characters don’t

• Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Satire
• Sarcasm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The outcome is opposite of what is expected to happen

• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• reversal
• caricature

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The reader is aware of important information that the characters do not know

• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• parody