1. Warm-up 11/5 or 11/6 Revise for stronger diction & syntax: He uses a plethora of rhetorical strategies such as: repetition, comparisons, and makes appeals to logic to really paint a good picture in the reader's mind to get his point across. Read article and discuss rhetorical strategies.

2. Today’s activities Review of American literature movements and social context Intro to satire Define terms Levels of Humor & extra credit assignment “Advice to Youth”- Mark Twain “The Devil’s Dictionary” & group assignment

3. American Literary Movements

4. Define: Satire – general term as well as Horatian satire and Juvenalian satire Verbal irony understatement, overstatement Sarcasm Situational irony

5. Define, differentiate, rank Epithet Parody Sarcasm Sardonic Invective

6. Aristotle: Levels of Humor http://chahoppy.blogspot.com/2009/09/ari stotle-levels-of-humor.html http://chahoppy.blogspot.com/2009/09/ari stotle-levels-of-humor.html Extra credit assignment: What does Heinrichs say about humor and satire as rhetorical strategies? Answer the question in paragraph form, citing textual evidence, and return to me by Monday.

7. Reading satire Speaker and author may be different Do not read satire literally! Satire is a form of irony; meaning is found in the opposite of literal meaning. The levels of satire are strategies developed from devices and styles of diction. We will take a look at the types of devices used with the different satires we will read.

8. Twain’s “Advice to Youth” Read together Analyze devices of satire

9. Bierce’s “The Devil’s Dictionary” Background- began in 1881 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dic tionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dic tionary Examples http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/ http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/ Assignment: In a group of no more than 4, write a satirical dictionary of terms having to do with education and high school. Your dictionary needs to have at least 10 terms. Present to class (Friday)