Satirical Devices

What satirical device is this image an example of?

• exaggeration

• irony

• reversal

• parody

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Choose the definition of verbal irony.

• reversing the order or events or reversing a power structure

• when a writer or character says one thing but means the other

• to present things out of place or absurd in relation to surroundings

• when the reader expects one thing happen, but the opposite happens

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CCSS.L.8.5A

This satirical device is the opposite of exaggeration.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Give an example of incongruity. Note: it can be an example we previously discussed in class.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Your parents thanking you for being responsible while they were on a trip, knowing you threw a party.

• verbal irony

• understatement

• hyperbole

• paradox

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

This image portrays what satirical device?

• Malapropism

• Understatement

• Paradox

• Anachronism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Satire is

• an in-depth study of a well known piece of work.

• an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for criticism or to make a political statement.

• an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

• something that is in popular culture.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

This duck is telling a:

• Paradox

• Understatement

• Pun

• Sarcasm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Parody is

• an in-depth study of a well known piece of work.

• an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for criticism or to make a political statement.

• an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

• something that is in popular culture.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A gross overstatement; an extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A