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Literary Device

holding up human vices and follies to ridicule and scorn

Genre

A work (novel, essay, cartoon) filled with satire

Satire is often used as social criticism, as a way to shame individuals and/or society into changing.

Satire is all around us:

-"South Park"

-"The Simpsons"

-"Family Guy"

-"Saturday Night Live"

-Dave Chappelle

-The Office

-The Onion

-Tosh.O

Tools of Satire:

Irony

Verbal: says one thing but means the complete opposite (sarcasm)

Situational: an unexpected happening (incongruity)

Bathos

-overly sentimental

-aims for serious but ends up causing laughter

-abrupt shift from serious to informal mood/tone

Hyperbole

An exaggeration meant to evoke strong feeling or emotion.

Parody

using imitation to mock, comment on, or trivialize an original work, its ideas or its creator

Caricature

Exaggerating the characteristics of a person or object

(stereotype?)

Mock Heroic

pretending to be serious, or elevating simple things to grandiose stature.

Satire= (tools)serious topic

1) identify the tools

2) identify the serious topic

Satire

Problems with Satire...

Satire Project!

Laugh and Learn in Groups

Groups of 4 or 5 students

Poster sized product

Select one example of satire: paragraph, cartoon,

or screen capture images from video

Identify at least three tools of satire

Explain author's purpose: why should we laugh

at this serious topic?

In class work: April 10 (select satire)

April 15 (construct poster)

Presentations: April 16

I don't get the context

I laugh at the wrong thing

I'm offended

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