CFA: Understanding Satire and Irony

What is satire?

• The use of rhetorical devices such as parallel structure, anaphora, and epistrophe in order to persuade an audience.

• The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, and other devices in order to criticize or ridicule someone or something

• A storyline that traces the downfall of a character as a result of a tragic mistake

• A type of story that uses animals as characters in order to teach a moral

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What is Horatian satire?

• A type of satire in which the speaker uses gentle ridicule to criticize the absurdities and follies of human beings.

• The opposite of Juvenalian satire

• Satire that makes people smile and laugh instead of becoming angry.

• All of the above.

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What is Juvenalian satire?

• Satire that compares humans to animals

• A story based on political issues

• A type of satire that is bitter and is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and pessimism.

• Satire that is clever and humorous and ends with a laugh

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Which of the following quotations showcases an example of hyperbole?

• “I've told you to clean your room a million times!”

• During a hurricane, you say, “It rained a little bit.”

• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Calling a person a chicken when they are unwilling to jump off the top of a building.

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What is the definition of bathos?

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

• To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing.

• An abrupt turn from the serious and poetic to the regular and silly

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

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Which of the following is a malapropism?

• “...was most putrified with astonishment”— Huck Finn

• Geology rocks, but Geography is where it’s at!

• Mrs. Malaprop: “As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”

• Both A and C.

• All of the above.

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True or False. Verbal irony is the same as sarcasm.

• True

• False

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In Mark Twain’s speech “Advice to Youth,” he says, “If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.” Which satirical devices does Twain use in this quotation? Mark all that apply.

• Bathos

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Anachronism

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What’s the difference between situational irony and dramatic irony?

• Situational irony deals with expectations vs. reality while dramatic irony is similar to sarcasm.

• Situational irony occurs when someone means the opposite of what he or she says while dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something a character does not know.

• Situational irony deals only with situations while dramatic irony deals with the disparity between what characters know and what the audience knows.

• All of the above.

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True or False. Hyperbole and understatement are opposites.

• True

• False

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