"High school students demand wars in easier-to-find countries"
I believe that this article was a satire because first it was on a satire website and it has the elements that make a satire. The 3 elements that they used in my opinion were hyperbole, irony and juxtaposition. In the article the students were over exaggerating on the reason why the United States of America needed to go to war with countries they were familiar with. I say they used verbal/situational irony because when the teacher was telling the senators that they needed to invade a city in America so his students will know the capitals of the states and where they are situated, you wouldn't have expected for a senator to say " I've always wanted to stick it to Hartford (Conn.)," without realizing that his microphone was on. And at last I chose juxtaposition because the students were putting the cause of having war in unknown countries and failing social studies or geography next to each other for more of a comical side effect.
"Miss kindergarten America" by Carol Schacter
I think that this is a satire because it deals with a seriousness of how beauty is affecting young girls minds around the world. It's using a lot hyperbole's throughout the whole story because they were exaggerating everything in her life like for example of how she starting smoking to get rid of her baby fat and also how this fifth grader, Tabitha, had a coming out party. Use situational irony because the reader might have though that this wasn't a 5 year old, maybe someone older. And lastly it uses understatement, making the issue less important than it really is.
"How to write about Africa"
This is a satire because it meets all the qualifications of a satire, it making fun of serious events, its funny, sarcastic, and offensive. It uses euphemism for example at the end of the article the author said "Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.", you can tell the author is trying to offend the writer in a sarcastic way. The author also uses humorous diction, in the 6th paragraph the author tells us how we should "adopt a sotto voice" when we are reading and also a "I-expected-too-much" tone. Lastly, throughout the whole article I think they used understatement because they are representing Africa as a country that is just poor with no good things happening to it.
"Dating your mom"
I believe that this a satire because it is being sarcastic, funny and offensive the whole time. the three devices of human in my opinion are situational irony, sarcasm, and hyperbole. It uses situational irony because you didn't expect the guy to be giving advice to boys on how to court their mothers. In my opinion it is very obvious that the author used sarcasm throughout the whole story, like we all know that he was being sarcastic when he was describing how to look into your mom eyes and to tell her basically how wonderful she is. And lastly it had the element hyperbole since it was over exaggerating on how you shouldn't feel bad about your dad not having their wife anymore, because they should have courted their mother and they wouldn't be in the position he is now.
I believe that this article was a satire because first it was on a satire website and it has the elements that make a satire. The 3 elements that they used in my opinion were hyperbole, irony and juxtaposition. In the article the students were over exaggerating on the reason why the United States of America needed to go to war with countries they were familiar with. I say they used verbal/situational irony because when the teacher was telling the senators that they needed to invade a city in America so his students will know the capitals of the states and where they are situated, you wouldn't have expected for a senator to say " I've always wanted to stick it to Hartford (Conn.)," without realizing that his microphone was on. And at last I chose juxtaposition because the students were putting the cause of having war in unknown countries and failing social studies or geography next to each other for more of a comical side effect.
"Miss kindergarten America" by Carol Schacter
I think that this is a satire because it deals with a seriousness of how beauty is affecting young girls minds around the world. It's using a lot hyperbole's throughout the whole story because they were exaggerating everything in her life like for example of how she starting smoking to get rid of her baby fat and also how this fifth grader, Tabitha, had a coming out party. Use situational irony because the reader might have though that this wasn't a 5 year old, maybe someone older. And lastly it uses understatement, making the issue less important than it really is.
"How to write about Africa"
This is a satire because it meets all the qualifications of a satire, it making fun of serious events, its funny, sarcastic, and offensive. It uses euphemism for example at the end of the article the author said "Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.", you can tell the author is trying to offend the writer in a sarcastic way. The author also uses humorous diction, in the 6th paragraph the author tells us how we should "adopt a sotto voice" when we are reading and also a "I-expected-too-much" tone. Lastly, throughout the whole article I think they used understatement because they are representing Africa as a country that is just poor with no good things happening to it.
"Dating your mom"
I believe that this a satire because it is being sarcastic, funny and offensive the whole time. the three devices of human in my opinion are situational irony, sarcasm, and hyperbole. It uses situational irony because you didn't expect the guy to be giving advice to boys on how to court their mothers. In my opinion it is very obvious that the author used sarcasm throughout the whole story, like we all know that he was being sarcastic when he was describing how to look into your mom eyes and to tell her basically how wonderful she is. And lastly it had the element hyperbole since it was over exaggerating on how you shouldn't feel bad about your dad not having their wife anymore, because they should have courted their mother and they wouldn't be in the position he is now.