Analyzing Satire in Modern Texts SATIRE #1: Lalo Alcarez, June 17 2015

SATIRE #2: "The Onion's Guide To Trick-Or-Treating." - The Onion. N.p., 29 Oct. 2015. Web.

Guide to Trick-Or-Treating

Halloween gives revelers a chance to receive candy all over the neighborhood. Here are some tips to make sure you get the most out of your experience and take home a big haul.

• When it comes to selecting a costume, remain flexible. Some beloved public figure could suddenly die, and you wouldn’t want to miss your chance to make fun of that.

• Reopening any partially healed wounds is a fun and easy way to save money on expensive costumes. • When assembling a trick-or-treating group, remember to fill your ranks with the brains, the muscle, the

looks, and the wildcard. • Leave Randy at home. He can barely walk in that panda costume and he’ll only slow you down. • Goblins and ghosts can be frightening for young children. Parents should prepare them by startling them

in costume at all hours for several weeks leading up to Halloween. • Houses with the lights out mean no one’s home, so go in through the garage and help yourself to

whatever’s in the fridge. • To maximize your route, start early on the East Coast and trick-or-treat westward with the sunset. • If you encounter a bowl of candy left unattended on a front porch, consult the latest census data and take

the percentage of candy allotted to you based on population. • Criminals love to poison the Crunch bars, so you’d better just give those and anything with nougat to

Mommy. SATIRE #3: “Think About it” by Flight of the Concords (Song Lyrics) There's children on the streets using guns and knives They're taking drugs and each other's lives Killing each other with knives and forks And calling each other names like dork

There's people on the street Getting diseases from monkeys Yeah, that's what I said They're getting diseases from monkeys Now, there's junkies with monkey disease Who's touching these monkeys? Please, leave these poor sick monkeys alone They've got problems enough as it is A man is lying on the street Some punk's chopped off his head And I'm the only one who stops to see if he's dead Turns out he's dead And that's why I'm singing What, what is wrong with the world today? What's wrong with the world today? What, what is wrong with the world today? You gotta think about it, think, think about it Good cops been framed, put into a can All the money that we're making It's going to the man What man? Which man? Who's the man? When's a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes, technically I am They're turning kids into slaves Just to make cheaper sneakers But what's the real cost? 'Cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper Why are we still paying so much for sneakers ? When you got them made by little slaves kids What are your overheads? At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die Sometimes I wonder why we would even try I saw a man lying on the street half dead With knives and forks sticking out of his leg And he said, "Can somebody Get the knife and fork out of my leg, please" "Can somebody please remove These cutleries from my knees" And then we break it down Acappella jams Breaking it down, let me break it down Jamin' out, just jamin' out, yeah, yeah

SATIRE #4: Excerpt from “Goodnight iPad” by Ann Droyd Preview attachment IMG_1981.PNGIMG_1981.PNG572 KB

“In the bright buzzing room There was an iPad And a kid playing Doom And a screensaver of…”

…“Good night gadgets everywhere!”