Honors English IV Final Review

What is satire?

• Making fun of someone

• A work that uses irony and sarcasm to effect a social change

• A work that seriously deals with a subject

• 
  A tragic hero

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A literary technique where that author has characters say or do things in a way that the reader knows is ironic, but the characters don’t

• Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Satire
• Sarcasm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The outcome is opposite of what is expected to happen

• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• reversal
• caricature

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

• understatement

• overstatement

• hasty generalization

• reversal

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

A composition humorously imitating another, usually serious, piece of work.

• Parody
• Dramatic Irony
• Hyperbole
• Sarcasm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The main purpose of Satire is to...

• Agree with something
• Make people laugh
• Criticize something
• To bring about change

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A Modest Proposal satirizes

• Irish bankers

• problems caused by overpopulation

• English policy in Ireland

• people who do not pay rent

Which element is crucial for interpreting parody in literature?

• Understanding the original work that is being imitated

• Knowing the biography of the author

• Recognizing the historical context of the publication date

• Familiarity with different literary genres

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Swift compares poor women to ___, whose only purpose is to have children.

• employees

• breeders

• lawyers

What does Swift offer as a serious solution to Ireland's problems?

• The establishment of a revolutionary government

• The overthrow of the king

• Mass emigration to America

• Buying clothes and furniture made only in Ireland