1. 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.

2. 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

3. Important Vocabulary Caricature Hyperbole Understatement/ Litotes
Persona
Parody
Irony
Sarcasm
Wit
Invective
Ridicule

4. 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

5. What is Exaggerated. What Faults are evident
What is Exaggerated? What Faults are evident? What is the “message” of this caricature?

6. What Type of Satire is this?
Horatian
Juvenalian

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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?

10. Let’s See your Caricatures!
DO NOW

11. Parody a feeble or ridiculous imitation
Uses elements of caricature, but adds in Wit & Sarcasm

12. 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?
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13. 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

14. 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

15. Let’s Hear your Parodies!
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16. Practice Test!

17. Chalk Talk: What Do you remember about Irony?
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18. 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?

19. 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

20. Irony
Dramatic Irony:
When the audience knows something the character does not.
What do we know here? Geico Commerical

21. Time to Test what we know!
Use your white boards to identify the type of Irony shown:
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22. 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?

23. 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

24. Rhetorical Analysis
You will have 45 minutes to write a rhetorical analysis of Mark Twain’s Advice to Youth (1882).