1. “Do Now!” What is humorous about this picture? How might it relate to satire? Text

2. Today’s Objective To learn about the basic elements and techniques of satire as a foundation for understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

3. What is Satire ?

4. “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.” New Oxford American Dictionary Satire is

5. Purpose To expose T0 educate The reform society & institutions To improve behaviors

6. Purpose What do you need to know to understand and appreciate satire? CONTEXT The culture of the times (the present or the past) The events and/or history of the period (the present or the past)

7. Audiences The sophisticated reader -- those already in agreement with the author’s opinion. The target audience -- those ridiculed for their behavior or opposing viewpoint The “swing audience” -- those who may be persuaded by the work

8. Targets a specific individual, a type of person, a larger group of people, even all of humanity.

9. Exaggeration & Distortion Irony Parody Burlesque Physical Humor Hyperbole & Understatement Direct Verbal Assault

10. Irony A contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is meant or an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

11. Irony Dramatic or Tragic irony Situational irony Verbal irony Risk -- can deteriorate into Sarcasm

12. Verbal Irony A contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is meant Verbal irony is implied and refers to spoken words only

13. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man". Mark Antony really means that Brutus is dishonorable

14. Dramatic Irony “The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.” New Oxford American Dictionary

15. Dramatic Irony In Macbeth by Shakespeare, Macbeth plans the murder of Duncan while hosting him in his home and claiming loyalty. Duncan does not know of Macbeth’s plans, but the audience does.

16. Situational Irony A contradiction between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

18. Parody “An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. ” New Oxford American Dictionary

19. Parody

20. Burlesque A ludicrous and distorted imitation A travesty (or caricature)

21. Presents a solemn subject in an undignified style, or Amplifies the dignity and importance of an insignificant or inconsequential subject

22. Burlesque of a Dignifi ed Subjec t

23. Burlesque -- Amplifying the insignificant

24. Physical Humor Ridiculous and humiliating action -- such as a pratfall

25. Physi cal Hum or

26. Hyperbole “I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.”

27. Hyperb ole or Extrem e Distortio n

28. Understate ment "I have to have this operation.... It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." (Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye, by J. D. Salinger)

29. Direct Verbal Assault Col. Sherburn’s speech to the mob in Chapter 22: “The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! [...] Now leave -- and take your half-a-man with you” Mark Twain- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn pp. 110-111

30. Risks Satire can Backfire!

31. offending the audience misinterpretation by unsophisticated readers. misses the mark by being too subtle or too broad

32. One can deliver a satire with telling force through the insidious medium of a travesty, if he is careful not to overwhelm the satire with the extraneous interest of the travesty. Mark Twain "A Couple of Sad Experiences," Galaxy Magazine, June 1870A Couple of Sad Experiences

33. What do you see in this picture?

34. Contemporary Satire