Satire Review

What is satire?

• The use of literary devices to create cinematic, rich images
• The use of incongruity, irony, parody, exaggeration and other similar techniques to mock vices and folly

• The use of personification and metaphor to create a unified tone and theme
• A form of zeitgeist

Satire is a term that only applies to literature.

• True
• False

The main purpose of Satire is to...

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

How does satire attempt to improve individuals or society?

• By modeling correct thought and behavior
• By ridiculing flaws and follies in order to call attention to societal problems

• By praising achievements and honors
• By explicitly explaining the difference between right and wrong

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

• Hyperbole
• Caricature

• 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

To present things that are out of place or absurd.

• sarcasm

• incongruity

• understatement

What rhetorical device is being used in the image?

• Parody

• Hyperbole

• Caricature

Which of the following is NOT one of the essential elements of satire?

• Humor

• Criticism of something or someone.

• Some kind of moral voice.

• All of the above are essential elements

An exaggeration or other distortion of an individual's prominent features or characteristics to the point of making that individual appear ridiculous.

• caricature

• hyperbole

• satire