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Satire Flashcards

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Types of Satire

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  • Horatian Satire

- Juvenalism Satire

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Satire

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  • blends critical attitude with humor
  • attempts to improve mankind/ human institutions (individual, group, or mankind)
  • ridicule, irony, exaggeration almost always present (NOT necessarily a comedy)
  • some serious statements of value or desired behavior but mostly implied moral code
  • audience understands “code” but only pays it lip service (hypocrite)
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Horation Satire

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  • delights/ instructs with laughter and ridicule to gently highlight human flaws
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Juvenalism Satire

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  • harsh, intolerant
  • attacks particular people, sometimes thinly disguised as fictional characters
  • laughter + ridicule (like narration) + invective + attack
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Satirical Techniques

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  • (used to make a comment or criticism about a particular subject or character)
  • Exaggeration
    • Caricature
    • Burlesque
  • Incongruity
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Exaggeration

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  • enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that is becomes ridicules and its faults can be seen
  • Caricature
  • Burlesque
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Caricature

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  • exaggeration of physical feature or trait cartoons, especially political cartoons, provide extensive examples of caricature
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Satire Quote

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  • “…a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured” - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Purpose of Satire

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  • goal of satire = illuminate hypocrisy of the target
  • wants target and/ or audience to adopt moral “code” for reals, yo
  • manipulated devises of comparison - similarities/ contrasts between 2 things (incongruous list of items, oxymoron, metaphors, etc.)
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Burlesque

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  • ridiculous of language
  • ex.When a character who should use formal, intelligent language, speaks like a fool OR a character who is portrayed as uneducated uses highly sophisticated, intelligent language.
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Incongruity

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  • to present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surrounds
  • particular techniques include oxymoron, metaphor, and irony
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Satirical Techniques

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  • (used to make a comment or criticism about a particular subject or character)
  • Parody
  • Reversal
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Parody

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  • 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 being ridiculed
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Reversal

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  • to present the opposite of normal order
  • reversal can focus on the order of events, such as serving dessert before the main dish or having breakfast for dinner
  • reversal can also focus on hierarchical order – for instance, when a young child makes all the decisions for a family or when and administrative assistant dictates what the company president does
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Satirical Devices

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  • Irony
  • Juxtaposition
  • Persona
  • Hyperbole
  • Invective
  • Understatement
  • Euphemism
  • Definition
  • Colloquialism
  • Non- Sequitur
  • Pun
  • Stereotyping
  • Malapropism
  • Wit
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Irony

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  • most commonly used/ most effective = instrument if truth, provides: wit, humor, indirect criticism (deflated, scorns, attacks)
  • a satire is ironic, but not all irony is satire
  • Purpose
  • Uses
  • Types of Irony
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Purposes of Irony

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  • want to be believed but lying/ probably out of kindness
  • don’t want to believed/ to upset/ sarcasm
  • don’t want to be believed/ share amusement/ ironic
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Uses of Irony

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  • writers say opposite of want he means

- gives audience knowledge the characters lacks

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Types of Irony

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  • Verbal
  • Structural
  • Dramatic
  • Cosmic/ Situational
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Verbal Irony

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  • 2 meanings (said and meant) often sarcasm = sneering, personal disapproval pretending to be praise)
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Structural Irony

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  • built into texts so that surface + deeper meanings are present throughout (use naïve hero/ narrator - comments: observations are at odds with readers - but reader must understand author’s intention
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Dramatic Irony

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  • audience has knowledge that is denied to one or more characters
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Cosmic/ Situational Irony

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  • gods, life, fate, or some other powerful force manipulative events in a way that mocks the main character
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Juxtaposition

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  • side by side placement of opposites
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Persona

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  • person credited by author to tell story in order to distance himself from what is said
  • persons and author may not share same beliefs
  • common to use narrators who are not very bright (irony)
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Hyperbole

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  • exaggeration for emphasis/ heighten effect/ catalyze recognition/ create humorous perception
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Invective

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  • abuses and denounces against a person, cause, idea, system; angry, bitter
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Understatement

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  • express idea with less emphasis than is actually warranted (irony)
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Euphemism

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  • a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept
  • the euphemism may be sued to adhere to standards of social or political correctness or to add humor or ironic understatement
  • ex: saying “earthly remains” rather than “corpse” is an example of euphemism
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Deflation

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  • an object either assumes or is given elevated status and then is treated in such a way that estimation of the object decreases
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Colloquialism

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  • the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, colloquialisms give a work a conversational, familiar tone. Colloquial expressions in writing include local or regional dialects
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Non- Sequitur

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  • Latin= it doesn’t follow
  • statement that does not relate logically to what comes before it
  • ex: if you wanted to earn a 5 on the AP Lang exam, you wouldn’t spend so much time reading Jane Austen novels
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Pun

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  • employs two meanings relying on the different uses of a word
  • can be used to set the tone of the satirical piece — whether it is light hearted or serious in its intention
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Stereotyping

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  • method of treating a character so that the character is immediately identified with a group
  • a character may be associated with a group through accent, food choices, style of dress, or any readily identifiable group characteristics
  • ex: rugged cowboy, the bearded psychiatrist, and the scarred villain
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Malapropism

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  • refers to the practice of misusing words by substituting words with similar sounding words that have different, often unconnected meanings, and thus creating a situation of confusion, misunderstanding and amusement
  • used to convey that the speaker or character is flustered, bothered, unaware or confused and as a result cannot employ proper diction
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Wit

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  • intellectually amazing language that surprises and delights.
  • a witty statement is humorous, while suggesting the speaker’s verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks
  • usually uses terse language that makes a pointed statement

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