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Satire

  • Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Senior High (10-12)
  • Produced By: Classroom Video
  • Year: 1999
  • Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • Running Time: 21m
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This highly entertaining dramatized video takes a satirical look at satire. The bureaucratic "Satire Licensing Clerk" takes us through an understanding of what satire is, using the analogy of "laughter with knives". Satirical sketches provide an understanding of the following: context, purpose, irony, sarcasm, ridicule, exaggeration, caricature, and parody.