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Satire

Satire. Any piece of writing designed to make its readers feel critical—of themselves, of their fellow human beings, of their society. Satirists are dissatisfied with things as they are, and they want to make them better. human beings often don’t respond well to lecture or admonitions. .

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Satire

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  1. Satire • Any piece of writing designed to make its readers feel critical—of themselves, of their fellow human beings, of their society. • Satirists are dissatisfied with things as they are, and they want to make them better. • human beings often don’t respond well to lecture or admonitions.

  2. They avoid offering straightforward advice. • Make fun of selfish, mean-spirited, or willfully ignorant people in the hope that we will see ourselves in such people and mend our ways.

  3. Devices satirists employ • EXAGGERATION: to represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen • HYPERBOLE: wildly extravagant exaggeration • UNDERSTATEMENT: the opposite of exaggeration

  4. IRONY: things are just the opposite of what they seem. Something small and trivial is made to seem important or serious; known as the “mountain out of a molehill” method. • Irony can be reversed, (something very important made trivial) to show that people aren’t paying enough attention to this problem. • In either case, the subject is described as the opposite of what really exists.

  5. 4. INCONGRUITY: To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings; • INCONGRUOUS JUXTAPOSITION: placing side by side two things that do not belong together. • 5. REVERSAL: To present the opposite of the normal order • 6. PARODY: To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing

  6. SATIRE is not just a type of RHETORICAL ANALYSIS; it is an ARGUMENT; • one should think about the RHETORICAL TRIANGLE (Speaker/Audience/Subject) and consider the creator’s choices/reasoning for constructing his argument in this manner.

  7. Triumvirate of Persuasive Appeals • Logical appeals: supporting a position with evidence, such as facts or statistics; • Emotional appeals: passages that use words that arouse strong feelings; • Ethical appeals: passages that establish the writer as sincere and qualified to make the remarks.

  8. Satire can have two MOODS • BEMUSED/GENTLE -- where the humor is mild and the author sees the problem as more foolish than evil; • BITING/ANGRY --where the ridicule is savage and the author sees the problem as urgent and severe, possibly evil.

  9. Satire can be directed at several kinds of TARGETS • THE INDIVIDUAL -- makes fun of one person’s behavior and beliefs because he feels that the person is foolish or malicious. • THE GROUP -- can be a political party, a club, a social class, a profession, even a whole society. • THE “SYSTEM” -- often involves large systems of beliefs, such as religion, or human nature in general.

  10. Forms Satirists Use • FANTASY -- the setting of the satire is an imaginary world or time. It softens the criticism by removing it from reality. • MOCK HEROICS -- take the realistic problem or dispute and turn it into a highly exaggerated epic battle.

  11. FORMAL PROPOSAL -- prepare a highly serious, highly rational proposal for action on this problem, but make it totally unreasonable and exaggerated. • PRAISE/BLAME -- take something that is bad and praise it without boundary, or take something good and cut it to shreds. Either way-

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