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Introduction to Satire. The Canterbury Tales. Satire. The blend of a disapproving attitude with humor and wit in order to affect change in human institutions (government, school, etc.) and humanity (individual people). Six devices of satire exist. Mockery. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Introduction to Satire

Introduction to Satire

The Canterbury Tales

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Satire

• The blend of a disapproving attitude with humor and wit in order to affect change in human institutions (government, school, etc.) and humanity (individual people).

• Six devices of satire exist.

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Mockery

Mockery diminishes its subject by evoking laughter or scorn.

Example:• When someone has a really strong accent and you make fun of him by imitating that

accent and making it even more ridiculously extreme, this is an example of mockery.• A parody of a soap opera that makes fun of how seriously it takes itself is an example of

a mockery.

• Colbert Report, SNL skits, Key & Peele , The Onion, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Scary Movie, etc.

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Dramatic Reading of a Breakup Letter

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHOL1PcPR8

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7qFS0ohaY

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Mockery Examples

• Ellen/Matthew McConaughey’s commercialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69chHMtrs4

SNL “Beygency”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGxe83lXgJg

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Parody

• Parody diminishes its subject through imitation and ridicule. Parodies traditionally imitate serious works or people who take themselves too seriously. The true craft of parody is minimal tampering.

• Examples:Al Yankovic songs, SNL skits, Key & Peele, etc.

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Saturday Night Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721dR-zDu4A

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Verbal Irony

• Verbal irony presents a double meaning in which you say something and mean another. Essentially, it is the use of opposites.

• Example:– “There was no reason for the marriage to

fail” following a list of all the reasons the individuals are incompatible.

– When someone comments on the great weather outside and it’s raining.

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Mean Girlshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLSjobM9bg

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Sarcasm

• An expression of strong disapproval, sarcasm is personal, jeering, and typically intended to hurt.

• Can be considered a kind of verbal irony

• Example:– In Act I, scene i of Shakespeare’s Romeo

and Juliet, Sampson claims, “I strike quickly being moved,” and a few lines later, Gregory responds, “To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: / therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn’st away.”

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Understatement

• Understatement is a figure of speech in which you say less than what you mean.

• Example:–Chaucer describes his Nun: “She

never let a crumb fall from her mouth.”

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690

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Overstatement

• Overstatement is hyperbole, exaggerating by saying more than you mean.

–Example:• “All of them feared him as they feared

the plague,” Chaucer says of his Reeve.

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The Colbert Reporthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8Lc973A1A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hq8Lc973A1A