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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
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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.”
Satirical Devices: Irony IRONY • Situational (what happens is not what is expected) • Verbal (often sarcastic) • Dramatic (audience knows something, but character does not
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.
Hyperbole An obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Allusion Apassing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare.
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
Juxtaposition Positioning side by side or close together mismatching elements for purposes of comparison/drama