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Satire: Its styles, types and devices.
SATIRICAL STYLES
TYPES OF SATIRE There are two types of satire.
SATIRICAL DEVICES 1. Humor:
The ability to recognize irony is one of the surest tests of intelligence and sophistication. Irony speaks words of praise to imply blame and words of blame to imply praise. Writer is using a tongue-in-cheek style. Irony is achieved through such techniques as hyperbole and understatement.
4. Mock Encomium: Praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead. 5. Grotesque: Creating a tension between laughter and horror or revulsion; the essence of all “sick humor: or “black humor” 6. Comic Juxtaposition: Linking together with no commentary items which normally do not go together; Pope’s line in Rape of the Lock: “Puffs, patches, bibles, and billet-doux”. 7. Mock Epic / Mock Heroic: Using elevated diction and devices from the epic or the heroic to deal with low or trivial subjects. 8. Parody: A mocking imitation, composition imitating or burlesquing another, usually serious, piece of work. Designed to ridicule in nonsensical fashion an original piece of work. Parody is in literature what the caricature and cartoon are in art. 9. Inflation: Taking a real-life situation and blowing it out of proportion to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults. 10. Diminution: Taking a real-life situation and reducing it to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults. 11. Absurdity: Something that seems like it would never happen, but could. 12. Wit or word play: The title The Importance of Being Earnest. It is a play on the word “earnest”, meaning honest, and the name “Earnest”. 13. Euphemism: The substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive. 14. 1Travesty: Presents a serious (often religious) subject frivolously it reduces everything to its lowest level. “Trans”= over, across “vestire” = to clothe or dress. Presenting a subject in a dress intended for another type of subject. 15. Burlesque: Ridiculous exaggeration achieved through a variety of ways. For example, the sublime may be absurd, honest emotions may be turned to sentimentality. STYLE is the essential quality in burlesque. A style ordinarily dignified may be used for nonsensical matters, etc. 16. Farce: Exciting laughter through exaggerated, improbable situations. This usually contains low comedy: quarreling, fighting, coarse with, horseplay, noisy singing, boisterous conduct, trickery, clownishness, drunkenness, slap-stick. 17. Sarcasm: A sharply mocking or contemptuous remark. The term came from the Greek word “sarkazein” which means “to tear flesh.” 18. Knaves & Fools: In comedy there are no villains and no innocent victims. Instead, there are rogues (knaves) and suckers (fools). The knave exploits someone “asking for it”. When these two interact, comic satire results. When knaves & fools meet, they expose each other. |
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i appreciate your "orignality of language" used for explaining the terms.
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