Satire uses humor such as mockery, irony, and exaggeration to ridicule people's flaws and inspire change. There are different types of satires such as burlesque which exaggerates a person, and parody which imitates a text. Satire employs techniques like irony, sarcasm, hyperbole, contrast, and witty language. The purpose of satire is to make people aware of their faults through recognition and ridicule in order to encourage improvement and adjustment.

1. SATIRE
USING HUMOUR TO RIDICULE

2. WHAT IS SATIRE?
Using mockery
- to demonstrate people’s flaws
* hypocrisy
* failure
- to evoke change
* make people aware of foibles
*inspire people to adjust thoughts/actions

3. TYPES OF SATIRE...
Burlesque
- imitation, through
exaggeration, of a person
Caricature
- imitation, through
exaggeration, of physical
features and expressions of a
person
Parody
- imitation, through hyperbole,
of a whole text and it’s voice
and structure.

4. TECHNIQUES OF SATIRE
Irony
Sarcasm
Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Contrast
Language of humour

5. IRONY- LANGUAGE WITH DOUBLE MEANING
verbal irony - literal
meaning of what’s said is
opposite to intended
message
dramatic irony - characters
say/represent opposite of
what the composer wants us
to understand
situational irony - contrast
between what we expect
and what actually happens
socratic irony - person with
more knowledge feigns
ignorance and presents info
to his/her advantage
... “Probity & Sons, Morticians,
did a really first-class job on his face
(everyone was very pleased) even
adding a
healthy tan he'd never had, living, gave
him back for keeps
the old automatic smile with nothing
behind it,”...

6. SARCASM – spiteful or hurtful
language with double meaning
Word of Greek origin...
“to tear flesh”
A personal attack
Often incorporates
irony

7. HYPERBOLE – exaggerated
exaggeration
Accentuates and over
emphasises to reflect
the significance of
something
Exaggerated phrases
might have some truth
Hyperbole is language
that’s not plausible.

8. CONTRAST – to draw
differences
Oxymoron
a contradiction between
two words used beside
each other
Paradox
a seemingly contradictory
statement that actually
rings true
Juxtaposition
placement of two ‘like’
images beside each other
to emphasise their
differences

9. LANGUAGE OF HUMOUR
Wit
Pun
malapropism
Imagery
metaphor, simile,
onomatopoeia
Allegory
analogy

10. SO, WHY USE SATIRE?
“The best satire does not seek to do harm or
damage by its ridicule, unless we speak of
damage to the structure of vice, but rather
it seeks to create a shock of recognition
and to make vice repulsive so that the vice
will be expunged from the person or society
under attack or from the person or society
intended to benefit by the attack”