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Elements of Satire

Elements of Satire. Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. What is satire?. Technique in which a writer ridicules/criticizes a person, group, institution or event Uses certain literary devices. Usually witty.

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Elements of Satire

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  1. Elements of Satire Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

  2. What is satire? • Technique in which a writer ridicules/criticizes a person, group, institution or event • Uses certain literary devices. • Usually witty. • Almost always sarcastic or ironic. • Usually has a tone of “mock-approval” – sarcastically supporting the thing it is criticizing. • Used in novels/essays, drama, music, cartoons, etc.

  3. Satirical Techniques • Sarcasm • Irony • Parody • Burlesque • Elevated word choice • Puns • Hyperbole/exaggeration

  4. Methods of Satire • Pun: play on words • Hyperbole: overstatement often used to show how ridiculous a situation is. • Burlesque: imitation of a person or subject by exaggeration or distortion. • a frivolous subject may be treated with mock dignity • a weighty subject might be handled in a trivial style • Parody mocks not a person or subject, but a specific literary work or style

  5. Pair Share • By definition, satire is _____________. One technique utilized to create satire is _______________. One example of satire I have seen, read or heard is _______________________________.

  6. Apple Hard At Work Making iPhone ObsoleteFEBRUARY 12, 2007 CUPERTINO, CA—Only a month after the much-heralded announcement of the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that his engineers were already working around-the-clock on the touchscreen smartphone's far-superior replacement. "We looked at [the iPhone's] innovative user interface, the paradigm-shifting voicemail, the best-in-class mobile browser, and we realized we could make all that seem ridiculously outdated by the time the product becomes available to customers in June," said Jobs, who described the project as "Apple reinventing the iPhone." "When the second-generation iPhone comes out this fall, we want iPhone users to feel not just jealous, but downright foolish for owning such laughably primitive technology." Jobs also hinted that the second iPhone device would not be compatible with existing Mac computers, third-party peripherals, or any future Apple products.

  7. Sample Response • In order to mock/ ridicule technology companies, this article utilizes sarcasm and irony. For example, Jobs supposedly states that apple wants “users to feel not just jealous, but downright foolish for owning such laughably primitive technology."

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