ELEMENTS OF SATIRE Satire should like a polished
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ELEMENTS OF SATIRE Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
What is satire? • • • Technique in which a writer ridicules/criticizes a person, group, institution or event Uses certain literary devices. Usually witty. Almost always sarcastic or ironic. Usually has a tone of “mock-approval” – sarcastically supporting the thing it is criticizing. Used in novels/essays, drama, music, cartoons, etc.
Satirical Techniques • • Sarcasm Irony Parody Burlesque Elevated word choice Puns Hyperbole/exaggeration
Methods of Satire Pun: play on words Hyperbole: overstatement often used to show ridiculous a situation is. Burlesque: imitation of a person or subject by exaggeration or distortion. a frivolous subject may be treated with mock dignity a weighty subject might be handled in a trivial style Parody mocks not a person or subject, but a specific literary work or style
Pair Share Ø By definition, satire is _______. One technique utilized to create satire is ________. One example of satire I have seen, read or heard is ________________.
Apple Hard At Work Making i. Phone Obsolete FEBRUARY 12, 2007 CUPERTINO, CA—Only a month after the much-heralded announcement of the i. Phone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that his engineers were already working around-the-clock on the touchscreen smartphone's farsuperior replacement. "We looked at [the i. Phone's] innovative user interface, the paradigm-shifting voicemail, the best-in-class mobile browser, and we realized we could make all that seem ridiculously outdated by the time the product becomes available to customers in June, " said Jobs, who described the project as "Apple reinventing the i. Phone. " "When the second-generation i. Phone comes out this fall, we want i. Phone users to feel not just jealous, but downright foolish for owning such laughably primitive technology. " Jobs also hinted that the second i. Phone device would not be compatible with existing Mac computers, third-party peripherals, or any future Apple products.
Sample Response In order to mock/ ridicule technology companies, this article utilizes sarcasm and irony. For example, Jobs supposedly states that apple wants “users to feel not just jealous, but downright foolish for owning such laughably primitive technology. "
