Term Tuesday

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Term Tuesday

• A discussion of literary and rhetorical terms

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Satire
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Definitions

• a literary work holding up human vices and
  follies to ridicule or scorn
• trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose
  and discredit vice or folly

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Purpose

• To achieve reform
• To make audience review their own actions

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Examples
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War in Iraq Caused by Typographical Error

• NewsHax wire -- In a report released by the White
  House Tuesday, it was found that the war in Iraq
  was caused by a typographical error in the
  intelligence reports on the weapons of mass
  destruction in Iran. "Appartently, the typist
  accidentally typed a 'q' instead of an 'n' at the
  end of the word," the report stated. Recent
  reports and admissions have shown that Iran has
  nuclear capabilities, just like the Bush
  Administration claimed in Iraq.

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• "I am extremely sorry to all those in Iraq who
  lost their lives and their families," President
  Bush said, "but I also think that this new report
  shows that we were right about a country having
  WMD, but due to a typo, we bombed the wrong one."
  

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• In order to prevent further typo-caused military
  conflicts, President Bush is sending a bill to
  Congress, the Proofread Act, that creates a new
  Cabinet-level position, the Secretary of Grammar.
  

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Oldest Biker Skull Ever Recently Unearthed,
Possible Missing Link

• Posted by Big Brother on 2003/6/12 12618 (3092
  reads)
• Scientists have unearthed a 160,000-year-old
  human skull near Sturgis, South Dakota that is
  the oldest known and possibly the best-preserved
  fossil of modern humans' immediate predecessors.
  The nearly complete skull of an adult male
  represents a crucial stage of human evolution
  when modern bikers first arose. It is important
  because many deem bikers as the missing link
  between early apes and modern humans. (more...)

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UN Unveils Worldwide Lottery

• Posted by zvoidx on 2003/9/13 192502 NewsHax
  wire -- New hope arose for the citizens of a
  cash-strapped world when "World Mega-Lotto", a
  worldwide lottery, was unveiled on Monday by the
  United Nations. The lottery, which boasts
  jackpots of "5 billion dollars and upwards", was
  detailed by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the
  United Nations, to a packed press conference held
  at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
  City.

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• The proceeds of World Mega-Lotto will be used to
  "educate the world". Some uses for the moneys
  will include providing school supplies for "the
  schools of the world". This includes funds for
  "notebooks, new pencils and very small lunchtime
  milk cartons."

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Literary Example

• Jonathan Swift's   "A Modest Proposal" (1729)A
  Modest Proposal for preventing the children of
  poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on
  their parents or country, and for making them
  beneficial to the publick.

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• I have been assured that a young healthy child
  well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious
  nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed,
  roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt
  that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a
  ragout.

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• I do therefore humbly offer it to publick
  consideration, that of the hundred and twenty
  thousand children, already computed, twenty
  thousand may be reserved for breed, . That the
  remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be
  offered in sale to the persons of quality and
  fortune, through the kingdom,

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• A child will make two dishes at an entertainment
  for friends, and when the family dines alone, the
  fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish,
  and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will
  be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially
  in winter. .....

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• I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and
  therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they
  have already devoured most of the parents, seem
  to have the best title to the children