 As you watch and listen, write down 3-4 things you notice that characterize the following video and audio clips

 iphone 6 (actual) iphone 6 (actual)  Iphone 6 (satire and parody) Iphone 6 (satire and parody)  Avril Lavigne-Complicated Avril Lavigne-Complicated Weird Al "A Complicated Song“ Weird Al "A Complicated Song“ (parody) The Colbert Report "Common Core Confusion“ The Colbert Report "Common Core Confusion“ (satire)

 In your groups, look at your “Notice and Focus” sheets Look for commonalities among all of your observations.  Decide on a group definition of SATIRE. What is it? What is it not? What techniques do people use to create it?

Definition of Satire: Any work (TV, Movie, Short Story, Novel, Art, etc.) that uses wit or humor to critique or criticize human behavior, human nature, and/or social institutions (i.e. laws, school, government, religion, etc.). The point of satire is to change/modify its target (the thing it critiques/criticizes). Techniques: Irony: the term used to describe the contrast between what appears to be and what really is. Irony often highlights a gap between reality and our expectations or beliefs. ◦ Verbal irony: a mode of expression in which the author says one thing, but means the opposite ◦ Situational irony: an outcome of events that is contrary to what would normally be expected/hoped for ◦ Dramatic irony: events or facts not known to a character are known to another character and the reader  Hyperbole: a figure of speech involving great exaggeration; the effect may be satiric, sentimental, or comical  Understatement: a figure of speech that downplays something’s importance; the opposite of hyperbole; the effect may be satiric, sentimental, or comical  Inversion: a reversal, or twisting of something; turning something into its opposite  Dark Humor: the use of humor to temper, or reduce the sadness or negativity of a situation; dark humor is often ironic, and uses the irony to make a point

Parody-- an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. "the movie is a parody of the horror genre" synonyms: satire, burlesque, lampoon, pastiche, caricature, imitation, mockery

SatireParody using humor to point out weaknesses of people and society using humor to mock or imitate a person or situation usually sarcastic funny (not so much ‘haha’) ‘haha’ funny makes a serious point often involves exaggeration

SatireParody Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit. A work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation

 SNL: Justin Timberlake-BeyonceJustin Timberlake-Beyonce  Monty Python  Weird Al  Scary Movie series  Not Another Teen Movie

 The Colbert Report  The Onion (  Animal Farm  Political cartoons