Allegory and Satire. 5/7/14  Take out your “Shooting an Elephant” response paper HW  Check that you have vocab packets for units 4,5, and 6 for your.

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Allegory and Satire

5/7/14  Take out your “Shooting an Elephant” response paper HW  Check that you have vocab packets for units 4,5, and 6 for your test on Tuesday  Items you will need today:  Your HW  Animal Farm book  Animal Farm Notes paper from yesterday

Shooting an Elephant discussion  What does the elephant symbolize/represent to Orwell?  What is Orwell’s tone towards imperialism?  What do you expect the tone of Animal Farm to be (in regards to communism)?

Allegory- definition  a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one  (like a metaphor…one that extends the entire piece of writing)

Satire-definition  Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.irony  It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and weaknesses. A writer in a satire uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn corruption.

In comics…  Look at the following comic strips from the series called “Pigs Before Swine”  Determine what is being satirized and what the underlying meaning is.

Put it into practice…  Extra credit (up to 5 points on your animal farm final assessment):  Create your own satirical comic strip about a topic that is prominent in high school (boyfriends, cell phones, lunch, etc.)