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Satire 2013. Definition. An art form in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are criticized through ridicule ideally with the intent to bring about improvement Say what? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SATIRE 2013
Definition An art form in which human or individual
vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are criticized through ridicule ideally with the intent to bring about improvement
Say what? Basically, it’s art (literature, film, song,
image) that points out and criticizes a problem with humanity or society. In the best case scenario, it causes people to RETHINK their behavior and change it.
Audiences There are three audiences:1. Those whom the author (or artist) believes
to already be in agreement with their viewpoint. (aka those on your side)
2. Those whom the author (or artist) would like to ridicule for their opposing viewpoint. (aka those whom you will stealthily ridicule)
3. Those whom the author (or artist) believes may be persuaded through exposure to the satirical work. (aka the "swing" audience)
Horatian satire-
Satire in which the voice is tolerant, amused, and witty (funny/clever). The speaker holds up to gentle ridicule the absurdities and problems of human beings, aiming at producing in the reader not the anger of a Juvenal, but wry smile or laugh. (Aims to correct through humor)
It is tolerant, witty, wise and self-effacing
Juvenalian satire Formal satire in which the speaker
attacks problems and error with disrespect and anger. Juvenalian satire in its realism and its harshness is in strong contrast to Horatian satire.
It is angry, caustic, resentful, personal
Satiric Devices Humor
Surprise – twist endings, unexpected events
Exaggeration – think of Jim Carrey’s exaggerated facial expressions
Understatement - An Army officer has just lost his leg. When asked how he feels, he looks down at his bloody stump and responds, "Stings a bit.“
Satiric Devices More Humor
Incongruity – things do NOT belong together
Deflation – the English professor mispronounces a word, the President slips and bangs his head leaving the helicopter
Linguistic games – weird rhymes, malapropisms (misusing words habitually)
Satiric Devices Irony – incongruity in what someone
says or does and what is meant or what is generally understood
Invective – name calling, personal abuse
Mock Encomium – praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead
Satiric Devices Comic Juxtaposition – linking together
with no commentary items which normally do not go together
Mock Epic/Mock Heroic – using elevated diction and devices from the epic or the heroic to deal with low or trivial subjects
Parody – mimicking the style and/or techniques of something or someone else
Satiric Devices Inflation – taking a real-life situation
and blowing it out of proportion to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults
Diminution – taking a real-life situation and reducing it to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults
Grotesque – creating a tension between laughter and horror or revulsion – the essence of all “sick humor” or “black humor”
Now for some examples
What type of satire:
Juvenalian or Horatian?
What Satiric Devices does
it use?
What does it criticize?
Example 1 – from Despair.com
What tools are used?
What type of satire is it?
Example 2– Political Cartoon
What tools are used?
What type of satire is it?
Example 3 – (once) Popular song
What tools are used?
What type of satire is it?
Example 4 – Political Cartoon
What tools are used?
What type of satire is it?
Example 5 – Children’s Film What tools
are used? What type
of satire is it?
Example 6 – Mock News What tools
are used? What type
of satire is it?
Example 7 – Musical Parody What tools
are used? What type
of satire is it?
Example 8 – War is Kind Do this on your own! Read through it and determine
What the author is using to make his point The element of society that s/he is
criticizing What type of satire the poem represents
Animal Farm Key Terms:
It is a SATIRE It is also an ALLEGORY (a story in which
EVERYTHING stands for something beyond the actual story on the page)
Reading Schedule: On your original calendar Expect reading quizzes Chapter 1-2 due Wednesday along with
Edmodo posts!