Satire and usage

Choose the best one word description of Satire

• Romantic

• Rational

• Critical

• Comedy

Poor Farmer Chevez labors sixteen hours a day and never has time for a vacation. He deserves better! Everyone should have at least one day a week for rest and relaxation.

• plays

• eats

• works

• unions

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

My brother said, "I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor.  All he seemed to want was an audience." 

• pretentious
• grouchy
• talkative
• worried

a teacher, especially one who is dull and narrow minded

• Corpulent

• impediment

• pedant

• pedagogue

This is

• Juvenalian

• Horatian

• Menippean

A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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 TYPEof satire: light-hearted, witty, meant to mock human behavior

• Horatian

• Juvenalian

This picture is an example of satire

• True

• False