SATIRE

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Satire

A literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly are held up to scorn or ridicule.IronyExaggeration/HyperboleHumorParodyRidicule

Shrek

Satirizes fairy tales by departing from the typical fairy tales characteristics in a humorous way.

What are characteristics of a fairy tale?

Clip 51:20-53:20 Pay attention to elements in the clip that

depart from typical fairy tale characteristics.

Satire in Pop Culture

Satire Examples Can you think of other examples of

Satire in Pop Culture?

SNL’s Weekend Update

TV News Politics, Entertainment, current

news

The Scary Movies Horror Movies Exaggerates horror movie techniques to

scare audiences

Political Cartoons Politicians and Political Issues

Policy Decisions or personal traits of elected

officials

Songs by Weird Al Musicians and Music Videos

Musicians, lyrics

Satire in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“What I was going to say” said the Dodo in an offended tone, “was that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.” (33). Caucus: meeting of members of a particular

political party to select candidates or polices. Parody of the electoral process and politics

○ Running about without meaning

Social Satire

The Little Crocodile- pg 26Education system“Crossed her hands on her lap”(26)

○ Victorian teaching tactic: repeating lessons

Wonderland= Monarchy (Great Britain)Red Queen= Queen Victoria

TeaMad hatter’s never ending tea time= English

social tradition of tea time

Satire in Children’s Literature What do you think about using satire in

children’s literature? Dr. Seuss used satire: The Butter Battle

1980sBerlin WallCold war- arms race

Activity

Read the following example. What are the issues the author is using

satire to discuss?What is the author actually trying to say?