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Satire

Satire. By Mrs. Sheble and Mrs. Davis. Warm-up. What is your favorite satirical movie/ television show/ skit/ song? (Hint: a satire ridicules or criticizes humanity or society) What aspects does this satire seem to target?. Satire.

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Satire

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  1. Satire By Mrs. Sheble and Mrs. Davis

  2. Warm-up • What is your favorite satirical movie/ television show/ skit/ song? • (Hint: a satire ridicules or criticizes humanity or society) • What aspects does this satire seem to target?

  3. Satire • A literary work that ridicules humanity through humor and other techniques to criticize/comment on some aspect of society

  4. Exaggeration • To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen • Example: Scary Movie exaggerates techniques used in horror films to scare audiences.

  5. Incongruity • To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings. • Example: A toaster as a time machine in parody of Simpson’s “Sound of Thunder”; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy • OR

  6. Reversal/Irony • To present the opposite of the normal order (can be situational or verbal irony) • sarcasm • Example: On Family Guy, Stewie acts like an adult.

  7. Parody • To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing • Example: Weird Al Yankovic songs, Epic Movie, Scary Movie, Date Movie, The Simpsons

  8. Other devices found in satire Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic) Hyperbole Stock characters/ Archetypal Humor Sarcasm

  9. Origins of Satire Juvenalian - Taking its name from the writer Juvenal, Juvenalian satire typically is a harsh attack on its target. Horatian - Taking its name from the Roman writer Horace, Horatian satire is identified by its tendency to make the observer or reader laugh. It is marked with wit and is not always a direct attack on its target

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