1 / 7

Satire:

Satire:. A literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking change. Famous Examples: SNL, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report… “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face

lixue
Télécharger la présentation

Satire:

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Satire: • A literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking change. • Famous Examples: SNL, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report… “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”

  2. Satirical Devices: Irony IRONY • Situational (what happens is not what is expected) • Verbal (often sarcastic) • Dramatic (audience knows something, but character does not

  3. Caricature Refers to the technique of exaggerating for comic and satiric effect one particular feature of the target, to achieve a grotesque or ridiculous effect.

  4. Hyperbole An obvious and intentional exaggeration.

  5. Allusion Apassing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare.

  6. Anticlimax and Bathos Dropping from the moving to the ridiculous for a bathetic [bathos] effect • a lapse into the ridiculous by a writer aiming at elevated expression--if the intent is to provoke tears but the response is laughter, the result is bathos

  7. Juxtaposition Positioning side by side or close together mismatching elements for purposes of comparison/drama

More Related