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Satiric Techniques |
Satire is a manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude with wit and humor in a effort to improve mankind and human institutions. Ridicule, irony, exaggeration, and several other techniques are almost always present. The satirist’s goal is to point out the hypocrisy of his target in the hope that either the target or the audience will return to a real following of the code. Thus, satire is inescapably moral even when no explicit values are promoted in the work, for the satirist works within the framework of a widely spread value system
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Realistic detail:
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use of specific concrete details to describe persons, places, and objects. (the description of Miss Havisham’s wedding cake in Great Expectations)
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Sardonic statements:
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bitterly scornful; cynical; expecting the worst
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Invective
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Harsh, abusive language directed against a person or cause. Vituperative writing. (Ex. The sermons of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”)
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Coarse mockery:
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Harsh, abusive language directed against a person or cause. Vituperative writing. (Ex. The sermons of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”)
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Wit
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primarily intellectual, the perception of similarities in seemingly dissimilar things—the “swift play and flash of mind” –and is expressed in skillful phraseology, plays on words, surprising contrasts, paradoxes, epigrams etc.
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Exaggeration/ Hyperbole
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a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. (The shot heard round the world)
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Ridicule
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the act of making someone or something the object of scornful laughter by joking, mocking
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Juxtaposition
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is a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit. E.g. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd:/Petals on a wet, black bough.” (“In Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound)
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Natural order of sentences:
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involves constructing a sentence so the subject comes before the predicate. E.g., Oranges grow in California.Inverted order of sentences (sentence inversions): involves constructing a sentence so the predicate comes before the subject. E.g., In California grow oranges
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