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Elements of Satire. A literary genre that uses irony, wit and sarcasm to expose humanity’s vices and failings, with the goal of inspiring change. Types of Satire. Horatian . Juvenalian. Pokes fun at human folly Tone is Witty Gentle Indulgent. Denounces human vice and error harshly
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Elements of Satire A literary genre that uses irony, wit and sarcasm to expose humanity’s vices and failings, with the goal of inspiring change.
Types of Satire Horatian Juvenalian • Pokes fun at human folly • Tone is • Witty • Gentle • Indulgent • Denounces human vice and error harshly • Tone is • Serious • Solemn • Dignified
Important Vocabulary • Caricature • Hyperbole • Understatement/ Litotes • Persona • Parody • Irony • Sarcasm • Wit • Invective • Ridicule
Caricature Exaggeration • To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen. • Often relies on Hyperbole or Understatement • Understatement is sometimes called LITOTES
What is Exaggerated?What Faults are evident?What is the “message” of this caricature?
What Type of Satire is this? Horatian Juvenalian
Caricature is Different from Character • Character—is a person in a story • It is developed through appearance, personality, behaviors and reactions of other characters • Caricature—is the exaggeration of a character so that character appears ridiculous • It is developed by taking ONE part of the appearance, personality, or behavior and exaggerating it.
So How Does An Author Create Satire? • By adopting a PERSONA • A voice or mask that an author, speaker, or performer assumes for a particular purpose. Let’s Hear it for the Cheerleaders! p. 227
What would you exaggerate? • Pick a famous person • Athlete • Television/Movie Star • Musician/Artist • Politician • What is their most notable characteristic? • What message do you want to send about them?
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Parody • a feeble or ridiculous imitation • Uses elements of caricature, but adds in Wit & Sarcasm
What Did this piece copy?How did they change it?What message does that change send? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=811Llm99M88
Your Task • Read the original poem and the parody • Decide how the second poem changes the original • What message is the second poem sending? • Be Prepared to Report Out
Create your own Parody of: This Is Just To Say By William Carlos Williams Variations on a Theme By Kenneth Koch I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, But it was morning, And I had nothing to do And its wooden Beams were So inviting Example
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Irony • Verbal: • statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning. • “Please go crash my car.” • "The day was as normal as a group of seals with wings riding around on unicycles, assuming that you lived someplace where that was very normal.“ • Can you think of more?
Irony • Situational: • To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings---INCONGRUITY • Twitter • To use reversal to present the opposite of the normal order or what you expect to happen--REVERSAL • YOLO
Irony • Dramatic Irony: • When the audience knows something the character does not. • What do we know here? Geico Commerical
Time to Test what we know! • Use your white boards to identify the type of Irony shown: • http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=247074
Is Irony always Satire? • No. • To make it SATIRE, it must have a point—or message. • So what was the point of Twitler? • So what was the point of YOLO? • So what was the point of Geico?
Irony In Literature • Can be serious or funny • Oedipus Rex Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliff Notes p. 233
Rhetorical Analysis You will have 45 minutes to write a rhetorical analysis of Mark Twain’s Advice to Youth (1882).