Exaggeration

to be witty yet to get a message to the viewers without saying it bluntly. When preparing a satire, there first have a purpose, something to be criticized. Next, using the four techniques of satire create the message. The four techniques are exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. These techniques…

When ideas need to be sold and there are an overabundance of suppliers, sensationalism is used by journalists, politicians, and news media to emphasize the extremes of language, and excite people toward a specific side without explanation as to why. History shows that numerous companies ignorantly make outrageous claims about their products in commercials, many presidential candidates proclaim amazing things they can do for America, while insisting other candidates would only make the country…

Politics and governance date back to the first civilizations, yet its byproduct—political cartoons—originate in a much more modern era. In 1898, the Spanish-American War ended with the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, and the U.S. acquired nearly all territory of the Spanish Empire. Nearly two decades later, Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa raided Columbus, New Mexico, killing sixteen Americans, forcing the U.S. government to take military action within the bordering country.…

the rest, it comes across as crude or irrelevant. There have been multiple comic strips that have explored political controversies. Take for instance the comic strips and the individual comic scenes about our upcoming election. These comics use exaggeration and irony to bring the point of the individual cartoonist, thus fitting into the category of satire. Batman comics are always looking into the corruption in the police forces or fighting crime in the stories within their pages. For example, …

As its name suggests, spoken word poetry is the art form of reciting poems of any kind. Performances tend to focus on key visual and audio techniques such as movement, tone, emotion, rhyme and improvisation to name a few. Many spoken word poetry performances are very personal and revolve around a particular theme or message that the poet is attempting to convey to an audience. Two performances, To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter, performed by Jesse Parent and Pretty by Katie Makkai in…

the perfect blank apartment for his escape, free from any ads, only to learn in the end that his safe heaven is actually where Dr. Ferman will “begin treatment at once” to get rid of Crane’s abnormalities (2). Russell obviously emphasize on that exaggeration of what intense control…

engage the reader in a humorous way. First of all, the use of comic characters shows a level of high comedy. Priscilla’s only friend, Melvin, is depicted to be “one of the smallest guys above midget status ever seen” ( Peck 344 ). This is an obvious exaggeration of a short character. He isn’t that short, of course, but the author made that observation to pair with Priscilla, who “was sort of above everything…” ( Peck 344 ). It’s a big contrast and is able to garner a few laughs from the…

Caravaggio. He wanted to imitate the natural things. The point of Baroque artwork was to be direct, simple dramatic, and obvious about what the portrait is displaying (New World Encyclopedia). Baroque literature had many metaphors, hyperboles, exaggeration, pessimism, and symbols used in it. The purpose of main reason of the Baroque literature was to make the reader go into an emotional state. They wanted to move the reader with their words. They played with the emotions of the reader. Some of…

This idea is expanded upon in the third sentence as Poe use specific styles of syntax to illustrate his own disbelief. Two styles are seen when he states "Yet, mad am I not- and surely do I not dream". Poe constructs the wording of this sentence backwards- instead of I am not mad, it's mad am I not- showing a contradiction to what the sentence says. Wording the sentence backwards makes the reader think the opposite of what the sentence actually says; he is mad, he is dreaming. Signs of…

These exaggerations are pointed out to men and women, the women being the worst and the men as the best. When the man is mentioned, he’s the educated person who’s in serious deep thoughts: “A pensive man am I, / Of philosophic joys; / Who likes to meditate, contemplate…