Satire Unit Assessment Oct. 2022

Question 1

definition of satire (from Northrop Frye)

Answer 1

tone is an “attack”
to make you more self-aware
“help close the gap between our heroic pretensions dn our considerably smaller performance”
questions more and social conventions that society supposedly runs on - sounds cynical?
“the reader must show himself the message”
“expose” society
suggests that distinction between plausible and fantastic is not as clear as we think
helps our “imagination free us” so we can “live in a slightly broader realm of consciousness”

Question 2

form of satire (from Northrop Frye)

Answer 2

Close to the form of romance
- author is like hero of romance
so that means we are the ones being saved?

Question 3

definition of irony (from Northrop Frye)

Answer 3

detached tone means can’t tell author’s feelings about subject
contrasts “some ideal and the reality of experience”
says the “simpler age of the hero is past” and world is more complicated now