Satire Study Guide

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

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

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

• Hyperbole
• Reversal
• Inversion
• Parody

Which one below is not an example of satire?

• The Colbert Report
• Saturday Night Live
• The Comedy Jam
• Family guy

Hyperbole is…

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

Sneering disapproval often expressed as praise is...

• Sarcasm
• Inversion
• Hyperbole
• Understatement

Satire = comedy + ___________

• social activism
• irony
• sarcasm
• anger

verbal irony

• sarcasm
• doing the opposite of what is expected
• when the audience knows more than the characters
• humor