Objectives for Today:

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Objectives for Today
Agenda for Wed. 11/18 30052H
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Cast Away
essay due Monday at beginning of class. Starbucks
test on Monday, Nov. 23

• Define and identify sarcasm and verbal irony in
  A Modest Proposal.
• Define and identify emotional, ethical, and
  logical appeals in A Modest Proposal.
• Interpret how emotional, ethical, and logical
  appeals effect persuasion in proposals.

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A Modest ProposalBy Jonathan Swift
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The cover of this week's New Yorker magazine
depicts Obama in one-piece Muslim garb and
headdress fist-bumping his booted, Afro-wearing
wife Michelle in camo clothes with an AK-47 and
ammo-belt slung over her shoulder beneath a
portrait of Osama bin-Laden while the American
flag burns in the fireplace -- in the
presidential Oval Office.It's got everything
incendiary except a vest bomb. Which is what
should telegraph to most people that it's way
over-the-top and, therefore, satire.LA Times
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• Representatives of Obama and McCain both
  denounced the cover as tasteless and offensive.
• Eugene Kane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel site "I
  actually understand what satire means but I'm
  guessing there are plenty of Americans who won't
  have a clue what the magazine cover is trying to
  say."

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SATIRE

• A literary work which attacks human vices,
  follies, shortcomings, or stupidity through
  ridicule, derision, irony, sarcasm, wit,
  scathing humor.

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• Satire often ridicules a target in an attempt to
  bring about improvement, i.e. shaming it into
  reform.

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Targets of Satire

• a person or a group of people
• an idea or an attitude
• society and its institutions
• a social practice
• a place (city, state, or nation)

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Targets of A Modest Proposal

• English People
• Catholics
• Irish People
• Landlords
• Americans

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Means of Satire

• Art
• Music
• Poetry, prose
• Drama, film
• Cartoons, comic strips
• Commentary

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Tools of Satire

• Verbal ironywords of praise which convey
  criticism and words of criticism which convey
  praise

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Great.
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• Sarcasma type of verbal irony often in the form
  of a remark in which the literal meaning is
  complimentary, but the actual meaning is critical.

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Good Job!
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Anatomy of a Proposal

• Proposal the act of offering or suggesting
  something for acceptance, adoption, or
  performance.
• Three literary tools used in proposals
• Emotional Appeals
• Ethical Appeals
• Logical Appeals

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Emotional Appeals

• Passages that use words that arouse strong
  feelings
• Emotional examples
• Vivid descriptions
• Narratives of emotional events
• Emotional tone
• Figurative language

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Dr. Martin Luther Kings Letter from Birmingham
Jail

• I guess it is easy for those who have never felt
  the stinging darts of segregation to say, 'Wait.'
  But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your
  mothers and fathers at will and drown your
  sisters and brothers at whim when you have seen
  hate filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize and
  even kill your black brothers and sisters with
  impunity when you suddenly find your tongue
  twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to
  explain to your six-year-old daughter why she
  can't go to the public amusement park that has
  just been advertised on television, and see tears
  welling up in her eyes when she is told that
  Funtown is closed to colored children, and see
  the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to
  form in her little mental sky, and see her begin
  to distort her little personality by
  unconsciously developing a bitterness toward
  white people when you are humiliated day in
  and day out by nagging signs reading 'white' and
  'colored' when you are forever fighting a
  degenerating sense of 'nobodiness' then you will
  understand why we find it difficult to wait."

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Ethical Appeals

• Passages that establish the writers
  qualifications and sincerity
• Demonstrates author's reliability, competence,
  and respect for the audience's ideas and values
  through reliable and appropriate use of support
  and general accuracy

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Logical Appeals

• Passages that use evidence such as facts or
  statistics to support a position
• Theoretical, abstract  language Denotative
  meanings/reasons
• Literal and historical analogies
• Definitions
• Factual data and statistics
• Quotations
• Citations from experts and authorities
• Informed opinions

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• "Buy this set of encyclopedias because it has
  been voted Best on the Market for seven years
  in a row, at an excellent price, contains over
  400,000 interesting facts, and is updated
  annually."

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Examples of Satire

• Saturday Night Lives Weekend Updatesatirizes TV
  news and criticizes human flaws and vices related
  to politics, entertainment, and current events.

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Scary Movie

• Satirizes horror
• movies by exaggerating the techniques used to
  scare audiences.

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Austin Powers

• Satirizes 1960s spy movies. Tackles sexism
  toward women and ridicules escapes by the spy and
  stupidity of the evil villain.

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Political Cartoons

• Satirize politicians and political issues by
  criticizing policy decisions and personality
  traits of elected officials.

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Political Cartoons
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This is Spinal Tap

• Satirizes rockumentaries and the excess of
  modern musicians.

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Weird Als Songs

• Satirizes musicians music videos by commenting
  on the excess of modern musicians as well as
  simplicity and immaturity of the lyrics.

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Animal Farm

• Satirizes Communist Russia

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Split into Expert Groups

• Number off into Five groups.
• Sarcasm, Verbal Irony, Emotional Appeal, Ethical
  Appeal, and Logical Appeal.
• Take time in your groups to
• Come up with a group definition of your literary
  terms.
• Find three examples in Swifts A Modest
  Proposal of your literary terms. (Note the page
  and paragraph of example.)

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Expert Groups

• Now that youve defined your literary terms in
  your own words and found two examples, come up
  with a way to teach your findings to your home
  groups.
• The key is to make it memorable and creative.
  You could write a poem, draw a picture, sing a
  song, etc.

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Time to teach what you learned.

• Tools
• Verbal Irony Experts
• Sarcasm Experts
• Emotional Appeal Experts
• Ethical Appeal Experts
• Logical Appeal Experts
• If you can teach something that means you know
  it.

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Follow Up
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What is this?

• Emotional Appeal

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What is this?

• Yea, that girls really smart.
• Sarcasm

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What is this?

• Logical Appeal

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What is this?

• Logical Appeal

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What is this?

• Emotional and Ethical Appeal

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What is this?

• Logical Appeal

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What is this?

• Emotional Appeal

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What is this?

• Verbal Irony

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What is this?

• Ethical Appeal

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What is this?

• Ethical Appeal

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What is this?

• Emotional Appeal

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What is this?

• Emotional Appeal

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What is this?

• Ethical Appeal

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What is this?

• Grandma! You lookbeautiful!
• Sarcasm

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What is this?

• MMMM! That looks healthy!
• Verbal Irony

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What is this?

• Verbal Irony

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Review Objectives

• Define and identify sarcasm and verbal irony in
  A Modest Proposal.
• Define and identify emotional, ethical, and
  logical appeals in A Modest Proposal.
• Interpret how emotional, ethical, and logical
  appeals affect persuasion in proposals.