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SatireExploring Words that Challenge
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What is Satire?
▪Writing designed to make its readers feel critical of:–Themselves–Their fellow humans–Their society
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Why write satire?
▪ Satirists are dissatisfied with things as they are, and they want to make them better.
–Satire allows the reader/viewer to laugh at the selfish, mean-spirited, willful ignorance of the characters in hope that we see ourselves and mend our ways.
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Two Modes of Satire
Horatian
• Gentle, mild humor• Problem seen as
foolishJuvenalian
• Angry, savage ridicule• Problem seen as
urgent, severe, or evil
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*The Individual*The Group*The “System”
Target Audiences of Satire
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The Rhetorical/Satirical Triangle
Speaker
Target Audience
These 3 elements must be present for effective satire.
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Devices Satirists Employ
▪ Exaggeration
▪ Understatement
▪ Irony
▪ Incongruity
▪ Reversal/Inversion
▪ Parody
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Exaggeration
To enlarge , increase,or represent somethingbeyond normal boundsso that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.
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Understatement
The opposite of exaggerationabout something serious; makes less of a deal ofsomething than it is.
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Irony
Things are opposite of what they seem.Something small andtrivial is made to seem important or serious.
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Incongruity
To present things that areout of place or are absurdin relation to its surrounding.
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Reversal/Inversion
To present the oppositeof the normal order.
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Parody
To imitate the techniques and/or the style of person,place, or thing.
“Beat It”Link: https://youtu.be/oRdxUFDoQe0
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Parody
“Eat It”Link: https://youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI
Identify:Speaker? Audience? Target?
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Forms Satirists Use1.Fantasy
2. Mock Heroics
3. Formal
Proposal
4. Praise/Blame
▪ Setting is an imaginary world
▪ Takes a realistic problem or dispute and turn it into an exaggerated epic battle
▪ Prepare a highly serious, highly rational proposal for action on this problem, but make it totally unreasonable and exaggerated.
▪ Take something that is bad and praise it without boundary, or take something good and cut it to shreds
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Identify the:Speaker? Audience? Target? Message?
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Identify the:Speaker? Audience? Target? Message?
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Next Step
Use what you know about ethos, pathos, logos and satire to analyze the article, “Girl Moved to Tears by ‘Of Mice and Men’ Cliffs Notes.”
Read and annotate the article. Be sure to identify the triangle of rhetoric/satire.