Cultural Mockery as Satire Vocabulary to Analyze HUMOR

Cultural Mockery as Satire

Vocabulary to Analyze HUMOR l l l Exaggeration- an overstatement Understatement-opposite of exaggeration; using a Understatement, often in the negative, to create comedic effect. Farce-form of low comedy designed to provoke Farce laughter through highly exaggerated caricatures of people in improbable or silly situations. Irony-saying/doing one thing while meaning another. Irony When the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs Mockery: Mockery An absurd misrepresentation or imitation of something.

Analyzing humor l Watch the following clip and identify the elements of comedy you see in it.

Vocabulary to Analyze HUMOR l l l Exaggeration- an overstatement Understatement-opposite of exaggeration; using a Understatement, often in the negative, to create comedic effect. Farce-form of low comedy designed to provoke Farce laughter through highly exaggerated caricatures of people in improbable or silly situations. Irony-saying/doing one thing while meaning another. Irony When the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs Mockery: Mockery An absurd misrepresentation or imitation of something.

Haha, yes it’s funny but… Is it satire ?

Reviewing Pope’s Philosophy l What “state” does Pope say man in stuck in? How is man “the glory, jest, and riddle of the l world”? Therefore, what is Pope’s view of society? l

Pope’s Satire l l Rape of the Lock Mock epic based on true events l Mockery: Mockery An absurd misrepresentation or imitation of something l Petre family and the Fermor family dispute over a lock of hair is spun into a fantastical adventure tale

Mock Epic l l A long, humorous narrative poem that treats a trivial subject in the grand style of a true epic like Homer’s Iliad or Milton’s Paradise Lost. For example, in The Rape of the Lock, Pope applies to theft of a lady’s lock of hair

Pope’s Form l Heroic Couplet: l l l Epic elements l l l 2 rhymed lines of iambic pentameter “closed” if they represent a complete sentence. Boasting speeches of heroes and heroines Elaborate descriptions of warriors and their weapons Involvement of gods and goddesses in the action Epic similes, or elaborate comparisons in the style of Homer that sometimes use the words like, as, or so Antithesis—placing side by side, and in similar grammatical structures, strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas.

Pope’s Irony l l l Audience: Upper class Subject of the farce: Upper class Purpose? TN’s Irony Audience: Everyone Subject of the farce: Southern Culture l Purpose? l l

TO SUMMARIZE Talladega Nights and Rape of the Lock are alike because…But Talladega Nights is…while Rape of the Lock is….