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SATIRE

SATIRE . The Art of Making Fun of Anything and Anyone. WHAT IS SATIRE?. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn Often fits into one of the following categories: EXAGGERATION INCONGRUITY REVERSAL PARODY DOUBLE ENTENDRE. Exaggeration.

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SATIRE

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  1. SATIRE The Art of Making Fun of Anything and Anyone

  2. WHAT IS SATIRE? • Witty language used to convey insults or scorn • Often fits into one of the following categories: EXAGGERATION INCONGRUITY REVERSAL PARODY DOUBLE ENTENDRE

  3. Exaggeration To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen. Example: George Bush as a monkey (he kind of looks like one)

  4. Incongruity • To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings. • Example: Advertisement for gelato that shows a nun in a sexual light

  5. Reversal To present the opposite of the normal order; to flip things around Examples: A cat speaking for animal rights and George Bush as a terrorist

  6. ParodyMimicking something or someone “THE SIMPSONS” SATIRIZES EVERYTHING!! Nirvana’s “The Sopranos” Edvard Munch’s “Nevermind” “The Scream” Star Wars album

  7. Double Entendre • A phrase devised to be understood one of two ways, one often being sexual • A really bad pick-up line: “If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?” • Examples of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (14th century), the Wife of Bath's tale is laden with double entendres. The most famous of these may be her use of the word "queynte" to describe both domestic duties (from the homonym "quaint") and female genitalia. In the thriller The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter states he is "having an old friend for dinner” ent innocently reads as him having ivited the friend to share an evening meal, but awareness of the character's cannibalism suggests that he intends toat the friend as the meal.

  8. Pointing out Hypocrisies or Hidden Truths The Catholic priests’ sex scandals

  9. Showing Irony People who have unfair advantages saying other have them

  10. Showing Puns Osama Bin Laden was trying to buy an oil rig to control oil that is available to the U.S. (SPAR is an old oil rig that sparked environmental debate a few years back)

  11. Making Light of Serious Subjects • Many people say that Obama is taking too long to make any decisions regarding Afghanistan…

  12. Pointing out Others’ Stupidity • Watching crap on TV rots our brains! One of Jay Leno’s “Headlines”

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