Monday, November 16, 2009

What You Need to Know For Your POL

Satire

* SOAPSTONE "A Modest Proposal"
(Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, Tone)
*What is Satire? Significance?
* How is satire different from comedy?
* Horatian vs Juvenalian Satire
* Unintended vs intended/real targets
* Hyperbole? Grotesque? How are these elements used in "A Modest Proposal?"
* Irony: situational, verbal, and dramatic?
* What is parody?
* Incongruence?
* Juxtaposition?
* Logos, pathos, ethos

Swift's agenda

Part I: The problem--what was it?
Part II: Swift's outrageous and absurd solution--what was it?
Part III: Swift rejects valid solutions--why?
"Let no man talk to me of other expedients..."
Part IV: Why does Swift deny self-advantage at the end of the piece?

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