1. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
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2. Learning Goal
I can analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

3. SATIRE
Use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to criticize society’s stupidity or shortcomings, particularly in the context of politics or other issues
HUH?
In other words, it is a way of making us realize how ridiculous or bad things are--often in a humorous yet biting way

4. Examples of Satire

5. Examples of Satire

6. Examples of Satire

7. SITUATIONAL IRONY
Occurs when reality does not meet reasonable expectations.

8. Examples of Situational Irony

9. VERBAL IRONY and SARCASM
When what someone says the opposite of what he or she really means
When does verbal irony become SARCASM?
When someone says the opposite of what he or she really means AND intends to make a jab at/criticize people, practices, beliefs, institutions, etc.

10. VERBAL IRONY

11. SARCASM

12. DRAMATIC IRONY
When the audience has knowledge of something that one or more characters are unaware of

13. Examples of Dramatic Irony

14. UNDERSTATEMENT
a statement that makes something seem less important, serious, big, etc., than it really is

15. Examples of Understatement
Monty Python: The Black Knight