DNP: 1/10/2012

• PICK UP your resolution homework from my desk.

“A Modest Proposal”By Jonathan Swift

Partner “Quiz”• Answer the following questions about “AMP” using

your packet and a partner – specific, cited quotes from the text to back up your answers

1.What is Swift’s proposal?

2.What is his reasoning for that proposal?

3.How does he insult the Irish?

4.How does he insult the English?

5.What is Swift’s disclaimer about his own

involvement in this plan?

IS SWIFT BEING SERIOUS?

Satire

• a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change

Two types of Satire

• Horatian satire: light, humorous form of satire

• Juvenalian satire: dark, bitter satire

Styles• Parody: imitating a subject, person, or style using humor, and

highlighting flaws or follies

• Caricature: focusing on one characteristic, quality, or feature of a person/group of people and exaggerating it to a humorous level

• Burlesque: a work that twists a serious issue into a humorous one, or takes a humorous subject and treats it as though it is a serious one

Satirical Devices• Wit: verbal cleverness

• Epigram: short, comic remark typically containing a “surprise” at the end

I hope you have not been leading a double life,pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde

• Sarcasm•The difference between literal and figurative

• Repartee: the ability to respond to an insult quickly and directly•“Your Mama” jokes

Literary devices to look for

• Allusions

• Tone

• Irony• Verbal• Dramatic• Situational