Satire: Lesson 1 Using Headlines: Use publications, online publications are fine. Find a theme or topic that has a number of headlines (politics, crime, romance, natural disaster, the environment) to tell a message. You can use between ten and fifteen headlines to tell your story. Write them down in a sequence you feel best tells ...
I like English, literature and grammar. I always liked learning about idioms and phrases when I was in English class. However, I certainly never learned about all the phrases that are in common use and I still use some today that make me wonder about the origins of the phrases. I know that “raining cats ...
Jonathan Swift was one of the premier voices of England during the Enlightenment. At his height, his pen was thought to be the most powerful force in England and was widely feared. An ordained Anglican minister, he became the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. While he is widely known for his attacks on ...
The fourth voyage of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is easily read as an indictment of the human species because of the obvious satire toward the Yahoos, but a careful reading of the text indicates that Swift is just as satirical toward Gulliver and the Houyhnhnms, and that Gulliver’s idealized view of the Houyhnhnms’ rational approach ...
The great English satirist Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 30, 1667 months after his father died. His mother Abigaile Erick Swift was bankrupted by the loss and Jonathan was taken by his nurse to England until he was four years old. At that time he was sent back to Ireland for ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson, America’s favorite astrophysicist, is not only a great commentator on science, but he is also a very well-read man who has recently answered the question, “Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?” In answering this, he gives a list of 8 books that he thinks are ...
In my personal (and anything but humble) opinion, reading and writing satire is one of the greatest pleasures known within the literary realm. This in no way implies that satire is easy to write because nothing could be further from the truth. Many people think that satire and comedy are synonymous. They are again off ...
Any work that attempts to enlighten the world about the realism of political and social problems are admirable works of political and social criticizes. Enlightening others about poverty and war is admirable because everyone in the world needs to realize what is going on in the world instead of just want is going on in ...
