Satire: Weaponized Irony: Reading Unit 4, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Satire: Weaponized Irony is Unit 4 of Literature, Rhetoric, and the Examined Life (Part 1) (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 96 pages.

• The irony gap between literal and actual claims in a satirical text
• The three-part literal-claim/actual-claim/signal routine as modeled
• Juvenalian and Horatian satire as points on a spectrum of tone and target severity
• Reductio ad absurdum as an argumentative move dramatized within a satirical text
• The implicit counterargument a satirical text builds through irony and exaggeration
• Target selection as an ethical and rhetorical choice in satire
• Transfer of the irony-gap/counterargument analytic routine to an unfamiliar satirical text
• A complete rhetorical analysis of a satirical text’s irony-based counterargument
• The risk that satirical exaggeration undermines the credibility of the real-world problem it targets

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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