Understanding Satire Worksheet
Understanding Satire Worksheet
Part A: Twain and McCullough
Provide supporting evidence from the texts to support your responses to these questions. All answers should be in the form of complete sentences.
1. What is the issue Twain is satirizing?
Twain mentions on how we as teenagers and smaller kids should consider on hearing and thinking more when adults try to give us advice, because most of them have already been through what we are living now. On the lesson he gives us an advice on how becoming a better liar can make you a much smarter person in a very humorous and entertaining way.
2. What techniques does Twain use to create his satire?
The techniques that twain creates in his satire are understatement, wit, irony and parody.
3. What is the issue McCullough is satirizing?
The issue McCullough is trying to satirize for yourself to be kind and a little egoist and only think about yourself, he thinks that we should do things to satisfy ourselves first and then worry about other people, and when people see you doing good by yourself then they will follow your way and they will try to be happy on their own too.
4. What techniques does McCullough use to create his satire?
The techniques that McCullough uses are understatement, caricature and hyperbole.
5. How effectively do the techniques used communicate Twain’s position?
He exaggerates the advice he is about to give the students. He lets you believe that he is going to offer you serious advice, but then he gives a humorous one instead.
6. How effectively do the techniques used communicate McCullough’s position?
He exaggerates things that you don’t have to do to prove someone; he wants you to do it so that you feel happy and great when you accomplish something. He tells you a lot of examples that doesn’t really show the meaning.
7. How are the messages communicated by Twain and McCullough similar?
They both are messages for the youth and are messages on how to make you happy in the future and later on
Part A: Twain and McCullough
Provide supporting evidence from the texts to support your responses to these questions. All answers should be in the form of complete sentences.
1. What is the issue Twain is satirizing?
Twain mentions on how we as teenagers and smaller kids should consider on hearing and thinking more when adults try to give us advice, because most of them have already been through what we are living now. On the lesson he gives us an advice on how becoming a better liar can make you a much smarter person in a very humorous and entertaining way.
2. What techniques does Twain use to create his satire?
The techniques that twain creates in his satire are understatement, wit, irony and parody.
3. What is the issue McCullough is satirizing?
The issue McCullough is trying to satirize for yourself to be kind and a little egoist and only think about yourself, he thinks that we should do things to satisfy ourselves first and then worry about other people, and when people see you doing good by yourself then they will follow your way and they will try to be happy on their own too.
4. What techniques does McCullough use to create his satire?
The techniques that McCullough uses are understatement, caricature and hyperbole.
5. How effectively do the techniques used communicate Twain’s position?
He exaggerates the advice he is about to give the students. He lets you believe that he is going to offer you serious advice, but then he gives a humorous one instead.
6. How effectively do the techniques used communicate McCullough’s position?
He exaggerates things that you don’t have to do to prove someone; he wants you to do it so that you feel happy and great when you accomplish something. He tells you a lot of examples that doesn’t really show the meaning.
7. How are the messages communicated by Twain and McCullough similar?
They both are messages for the youth and are messages on how to make you happy in the future and later on