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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
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.
Dramatic Reading of a Breakup Letter
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHOL1PcPR8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7qFS0ohaY
Mockery Examples
• Ellen/Matthew McConaughey’s commercialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69chHMtrs4
SNL “Beygency”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGxe83lXgJg
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.
Saturday Night Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721dR-zDu4A
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.
Mean Girlshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLSjobM9bg
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.”
Big Bang Theory
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7MroTLDfU
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.”
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690
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.
The Colbert Reporthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8Lc973A1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hq8Lc973A1A