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 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?

Let’s See your Caricatures! DO NOW

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 Did this piece copy? How did they change it? What message does that change send? https://www .youtube.co m/watch?v= 811Llm99M 88

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

Let’s Hear your Parodies! DO NOW

Practice Test!

Chalk Talk: What Do you remember about Irony? DO NOW

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?

Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliff Notes 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).