What is Satire?
Literary Devices
Aim of Satire
4 things that determine if a work is Satire?
Writing Satire
100

Satire always includes a form of 

What is Social Criticism? 

100

Exaggerate, enlarge, increase, or present something beyond its normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous. 

What is a hyperbole? 

100

First thing that satire aims to do

What is improve human institutions and/or humanity? 

100

The author may _______ the reader in to what he is writing is satire? 

What is clue? 

100

Be _______________

What is funny? 

200

Satire most often deals with these two things. 

What are fools and frauds? 

200

Figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.

What is an understatement? 

200

Second thing Satire aims to do

What is causes individuals to pressure leaders and society as a whole to improve for the benefit of all

200

The author may _______ previous satires to tell us what he is satirizing

 

What is cite?

200

If the subject matter is serious________________

What is understate or make it ridiculous? 

300

It has to do with ________ and the __________ life itself

What is literature and literary? 

300

Statement that seems to be self-contradictory, yet as meaning that may provoke a new understanding.

What is a paradox? 

300
What is expressed through a narrative, and the characters who are the joke are ridiculed

What is indirect satire?

300

____ of traditional satiric subject matter and its treatment

What is choice? 

300

Do the opposite of your subject matter: if the subject matter is light _____________________

What is overstate and exaggerate? 
400

Satire uses what four things to ridicule. 

What are Mockery, Irony, Humor, Wit?

400

Normally involve two contradictory words used together in a simple or joking manner.

What is an oxymoron?

400

_____ is easy to distinguish. They often contain cruel words 

What is style? 

500

Satire ridicules these six things. 

What is a Person, Habit, Idea, Institution, Society, Custom? 

500

Reversal in the order of words in two or more otherwise parallel phrases in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.

What is Chiasmus? 

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