1. Satire:
Animal Farm
Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize the vices and/or stupidity of people or systems, particularly in politics and topical issues.

2. Satire: the use of humor, ridicule, sarcasm, and irony to denounce or scorn human folly and vice.
Satire vs. Parody

3. Parody: The act of mimicking something specific to comment on it.
Satire vs. Parody

4. Elements of Satire
Exaggeration
To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.

5. Elements of Satire
Incongruity
To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to surroundings. Think: oxymoron, metaphor, irony.

6. Elements of Satire Reversal
To present the opposite of the normal order.
Order of events: serving dessert before the main dish or having breakfast for dinner.
Hierarchical order: a young child makes all decisions for a family or an intern dictates what the company president decides and does.

7. Elements of Satire
Parody
To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing in order to ridicule the original. For parody to be successful, the reader must know the original text that is being ridiculed.

8. Examples: Satire & Parody
The Onion >> __________
The Colbert Report >> __________
Portlandia >> __________
Carrot >> __________
Baby Spanx >> __________
Mom Jeans >> __________
Demotivational Posters >> __________
Mr. Big (Zootopia) >> __________
Doug’s Lab (Zootopia) >> __________
Examples: Satire & Parody

9. Examples of Satire Shrek - Fiona Fight Scene
Shrek 2 - Mission Impossible
Tangled - I’ve Got a Dream
The Simpsons - Elements of Satire
Monty Python - Holy Hand Grenade
Monty Python - She’s a Witch
Monty Python - Annoying Peasant

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12. Irony: A state or event that seems deliberately contrary to what was or might be expected; an outcome cruelly, humorously, or strangely at odds with assumptions or expectations.

13. Example: Irony

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