1. I can identify and determine the meaning of satirical devices.
Day 2 – Devices of Satire

2. Satirical and Comedic Devices The satirist uses a wide variety of devices to achieve a satiric goal. Some of these are very subtle, and others are quite blunt. But all of them, in the end, are methods of distortion.
Puns
Double Entendre
Fallacy
Caricature
Parody
Paradox
Litotes
Understatement
Irony
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic
Invective
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Euphemisms
You will be completing a Gallery Walk to write down the definitions/examples of these devices.

3. Important Note: Parody vs. Satire
Parody examples are often confused as examples of satire. Although parody can be used to develop satire, it differs from satire to a certain extent.
Parody mimics a subject directly to produce a comical effect.
Satire, on the other hand, makes fun of a subject without a direct imitation. Moreover, satire aims at correcting shortcomings in society by criticizing them.
Parody is a kind of comedy that imitates and mocks individuals or a piece of work. However, when it mingles with satire, it makes satire more pointed and effective.
Adele – Hello Parodies

4. Paradox: A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.
Some types of paradox are meant to communicate a tone of irony to its readers as well as lead their thoughts to the immediate subject. Paradox normally strives to create feelings of intrigue and interest in readers’ minds to make them think deeper and harder to enjoy the real message of the text.
Examples:
Your enemy’s friend is your enemy.
Wise fool.
Truth is honey which is bitter.
“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw
Literary Examples: Hamlet, Hamlet: “I must be cruel to be kind.
Macbeth, The Witches: “Fair is foul and foul is fair”

5. Identify Paradox in the clip:
Shakespeare used many examples of paradox in his plays and poems, and this is just one such example. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is based on a paradox. Juliet expresses it in this quote, that her “only love sprung from [her] only hate.” It is unexpected that love should spring from hate to the extent that it seems impossible. However, the story of Romeo and Juliet shows the deeper truth of love and hate—they are not so irreconcilable after all.
(start at 7:10)
JULIET: My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathèd enemy.

6. Litotes: Litotes is a figure of speech in which a negative statement is used to affirm a positive sentiment. 
Literary Example: (The Iliad by Homer, as translated by Ian Johnston)
“Once he’s led you to Achilles’ hut,
that man will not kill you—he’ll restrain
all other men. For he’s not stupid,
blind, or disrespectful of the gods.
He’ll spare a suppliant, treat him kindly.”
This litotes example comes from the Classical Greek text of The Iliad, written by Homer. Here Iris, a messenger from Zeus, is describing Achilles’ qualities to King Priam of Troy, and says, “he’s not stupid, blind, or disrespectful of the gods.” (This line is also sometimes translated as, “he is neither unthinking, nor unseeing”). Iris wants to emphasize that Achilles will not injure Priam, which she does so by listing off negative qualities that Achilles does not possess.

7. Important Note: Litotes vs. Understatement
Understatement is any expression that minimizes the importance of something.
Understatement and litotes both invoke a certain restraint or stoicism when describing something.
Literary Example: from The Great Gatsby
“I’ve got a nice place here,” he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.
Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore.
Litotes is a form of ironic understatement.
However, the definition of litotes is much more specific than that of understatement.
Litotes only refers to the negation of one quality to emphasize its opposite. If a person is “not unimaginative,” this negation of the negative quality “unimaginative” implies that the person is, in fact, imaginative.

8. Identify Litotes in the text:
“I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.
(A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift)
Jonathan Swift’s famous essay A Modest Proposal is a piece of satire in which he puts forth the idea of eating the children of Ireland to combat both the problems of hunger and of overpopulation. Knowing that the public will react with horror to this proposal, Swift preempts it with the litotes, “I hope will not be liable to the least objection.” Of course, there would be huge objections to the proposal, and Swift ironically downplays the significance of what he’s about to say.

9. Practice
Let’s see if we can identify some examples of satirical devices!
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10. Analyze Twain’s use of Satirical Devices
With a partner: Annotate Twain’s short story “War Prayer” for comedic devices.
Underline and Identify
Individually: Complete the worksheet.
You will pick three devices to explain and then analyze for their effect.
Explain how Twain’s use of these devices creates his satirical argument.

11. Homework Directions:
Everyone in B2, B4, and A1 AP Language and Composition class will find an example of a satirical device used to make an argument.
Each student must use a DIFFERENT example. There should be no overlaps of articles, videos, pictures, etc.
To add your example, access this powerpoint in Google Drive, click on the header slide for the device your example fits, right click on “insert” and click “new slide.”
On your slide, you must:
Include your example. You may hyperlink to it if it’s an article or video.
Explain how this example exemplifies your device.
Explain what the author’s main argument is (the REAL argument)
Explain whether this satire as a whole is more Horatian or more Juvenalian.
DO NOT ALTER ANYONE ELSES SLIDE. I CAN SEE WHO HAS EDITED THE POWERPOINT AT SPECIFIC TIMES AND WHAT HAS BEEN CHANGED, SO DON’T TRY IT. ALSO, “SOMEONE CHANGED MY SLIDE” IS NOT AN EXCUSE--BACK YOUR WORK UP IN A WORD DOCUMENT FOR EMERGENCIES.

12. SAMPLE: INVECTIVE Example by: Ali Khan (2012-13) A-1
The following video is a good example of Horatian invective satire. By Stewart Macintosh, it's main purpose is to make innocent fun at his career-focused school while also using satire to point out its many flaws. Taking the form of a usual promotion video that you'd see for a product or place, Macintosh goes through some "reasons" why the CTE Academy is so "amazing", including, but not limited to:
books
water fountains
fluorescent lighting
Toilets
The "Official CTE Promo Video" Stewart Macintosh
Basically stating that the school offers nothing else of importance. The invective part plays into how often he mocks the school; every sentence points out one flaw or another. However, his invective satire is remarkably Horatian in that you can tell that Macintosh isn't serious in the least.