Satire and Reading "A Modest Proposal" Review

Satire is another way to _______.

• persuade

• admire

• cover up

• ignore

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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices

• satire

• understatement

• verbal irony

• hyperbole

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The three necessary ingredients to satire are:

• criticism, ideas, points

• moral voice, tone, mood

• humor, joking, laughter

• humor, criticism, moral voice

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Which type of satire involves GOOD-NATURED criticism?

• Horatian

• Juvenalian

• Mammalian

• Reptilian

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which type of satire is more bitter and cynical? (not good-natured)

• Horatian

• Juvenalian

• Mycelian

• Onion

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When a writer says one thing and means another

• verbal irony

• hyperbole

• dramatic irony

• understatement

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When the reader or audience knows something the character does not

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• parody

• verbal irony

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

• hyperbole

• simile

• reversal

• understatement

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To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings

• reversal

• incongruity

• allegory

• sarcasm

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

• reversal

• allegory

• parody

• incongruity

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