1. Satire
Dean
English 12

2. What is Satire?

3. Satire
A genre of literature, music, theater, or art that ridicules human weakness, vice or folly in order to bring about social change. Some areas commonly subject to satire are politics, government, religion, or pop culture.

4. How do you characterize satire?
Horatian
Juvenalian

5. How do you characterize satire?
Juvenalian
This is satire that is harsh bitter, biting or cruel in tone. Often Juvenalian satire is filled with personal attacks or moral outrage. Refers to the Latin satirist Juvenal who criticized Roman society in the first century. Evokes feelings of contempt or shock.. Also called Tragic Satire (In this type of satire, the author is horrified or disgusted by the failings of other humans. It aims to improve the situation, but may employ humor)
Horatian
This satire is gentle, smiling or urbane in tone. Horatian satire makes us laugh at human nature. Also known as Comic Satire

6. Satirical Devices Caricature
A portrait that exaggerates the essence of a person, diminishing him or her to his most significant features(usually physical characteristics)

7. Satirical Devices
Euphemism An expression that is softens the true meaning of a word or truth.
Passed away
In the big house
Big boned
Blow chunks
Adult beverages
Between jobs
Visit the ladies room
A roll in the hay

8. Satirical Devices
Irony

9. Satirical Devices Irony
A discrepancy between what is literal and what is figurative.
A contrast between expectation and reality.
There are three main types of irony: situational, verbal, and dramatic. Situational irony occurs when wheat actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or is appropriate. Verbal irony occurs when a speaker or write uses words to convey a meaning that is opposite of the literal meaning. Dramatic irony occurs when the implications of a situation or speech, are understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play or piece of literature.

10. Satirical Devices
Sarcasm A form of verbal irony when the speaker makes a cutting remark that is the opposite of what is true… disapproval in the guise of praise

11. Satirical Devices Parody
A work of art that imitates another style in an effort to mock or trivialize something else.

12. Satirical Devices Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

13. Satirical Devices
Understatement A type of speech that expresses an idea with less strength or emphasis than is expected
Swift current

14. Satirical devices Juxtaposition
The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development