WorksheetsCFA: Understanding Satire and Irony
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
True or False. Verbal irony is the same as sarcasm.
True
False
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
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.
True or False. Hyperbole and understatement are opposites.
True
False
