Looking Into The Funny - PowerPoint Presentation

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Looking Into The FunnySlide2

Figurative language uses

FIGURES OF SPEECH to emphasize meaning

Similes

—comparison of unlike things using like or as

Metaphors

—comparison of unlike things without using like or as

Personification

—giving non-human object human qualities and characteristics

Hyperbole

—an exaggerationSlide3

Aphorisms

Clever sayings that express general truthsSlide4

A person who produces or collects aphorisms is an

APHORIST.

Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin were

famous American aphorists.Slide5
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Aphorisms use

RHYME, REPETITION

, AND

ALLITERATION

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Rhyme—rise and wise; healthy and wealthy

Repetition—early Alliteration—makes man; wealthy wiseSlide8

Alliteration

is the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words

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Cliches

An expression that has been overused to the point of losing its emphasis.Slide10

Cliches are generally used in a negative context.Slide11

Cliché

In this day and age, good teachers are few and far between. My deepest, darkest secret is my desire to be one of those teachers - one that is worth her weight in gold, who works her fingers to the bone, hand in hand with students to prepare them to meet the trials and tribulations of life.Slide12

With an attitude like that, my first day of teaching was doomed to disappointment. I was walking on air as I arrived at my first class, until I realized I'd forgotten my key. A wave of optimism washed over me when I saw the classroom door open. I sauntered up to the door, when BANG, like a bolt from the blue, one of my new students - later proven to be rotten to the core - darted out and slammed the door right in my face.Slide13

"I don't know. It may be pretty hard to put

Humpty Dumpty back together again.“

“I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore.”

“We need to “eat our peas.”Slide14

Last defendant in

Derrion

Albert beating death gets 32 years

Tribune reporterSlide15

Idioms

an expression whose meaning cannot be decided from the statement's literal definition.Slide16

Visual Idiom

Between the lines

In politics, the term “lame duck”

refers to an elected official whose term

of office has not yet expired but who has

failed to get re-elected and therefore

cannot garner much political support forinitiatives. This 1915 cartoon shows "lame duck"

members of Congress departing Capitol

Hill after losing their bid for reelection.

The lame ducks shown are defeated

Democrats heading to the White House

hoping to secure political appointments

from then-President Woodrow Wilson.

The Lame Duck Amendment, 20th to

the U.S. Constitution, calls for Congress

and each new President to take office in

January instead of March (as before),

thereby eliminating the lame-duck session

of Congress. But for the period between

the November election and the January

inauguration and new Congress,Slide17
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Idioms are actually

METAPHORS

When the writer uses two unlike things being compared to each other…two nouns

.

Example: Life is a dream.

She leads a dog’s life!Slide19
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You can not change or substitute words and still have an intact idiom.

She kicked the bucket. Is NOT She kicked the pail.

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Idioms are UN-MODIFIABLE

You can’t add words or take words out and have the same end result.

She kicked the bucket. IS NOT

She kicked the BIG bucket.

She kicked the bucket. IS NOT She is the bucket.Slide22

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ALLUSION

An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned. Allusions usually come from a body of information that the author

presumes

the reader will know. For example, an author who writes, “She was another Helen,” is alluding to the proverbial beauty of Helen of Troy. Slide24
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SYMBOLS

Definition: Something that represents another thing by association, resemblance, or convention

Purpose: Communicate complicated ideas

Message: Readers have to have background knowledge in order to understand the person, place, or thing (symbol) reflected

Example:

EGYPT= Genies and pyramids

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Symbolism—

A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself.

Anthropomorphic--

Originally in reference to regarding God ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity.Slide28

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Example:

Yankee Doodle=rustic rural character evolved into a fellow dressed in stars and stripes;

Uncle Sam= Sam Wilson was a meat supplier during the War of 1812. Yankee Doodle’s image + a goatee was a basic likeness of Abraham Lincoln. Thus, Uncle Sam was born.

Donkey= Democratic Party

Elephant=Republican PartySlide31

Stereotypes—type of symbol used by cartoonists

Easily conveyed using symbols or creating a symbol to represent a ideas, nations, groups of people or individual. The use of stereotypes allows the cartoonist to bypass lengthy writing passages.

Example: the light bulb above a character’s head

a large nose or prominent jaw line

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CARICATURE

Drawing using a famous figure but extending features almost distorting them out of perspective, but still recognizable.

Cartoonists use it as one of their “tools”.

The cartoonist is concerned with readers recognizing the political figure more than fairness to the real

likenessSlide36

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Editorial Cartoons

Journalists add information, persuade others, and push positions. They are only as good as the understanding level of their readers. Or perhaps, an editorialist uses the inadequate knowledge of its readers to invade and control readers.

Editorial cartoons study current events and express social and political ideals using visual representation (metaphors).Slide38

North Korea’s new ruler Kim Jong UnSlide39

What is the current federal minimum wage?Slide40

“We have nothing to fear but

fear itself.” Slide41

PARODY

to imitate (a composition, author, etc.) for purposes of ridicule or satire.

SATIRE

  A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. It often emphasizes the weakness more than the weak person, and usually implies moral judgment and corrective purpose

PUN

A pun occurs when the author uses a word or words that have more than one meaning.

IRONY Something humorous based on contradiction: Words or situations suggesting the opposite of their literal meaning. SARCASM

Remarks that mean the opposite of what they seem to say and are intended to mock or deride.Slide42

Mother Goose Land (AP) - Paramedics rushed to the garden wall down in the Dell today to discover a horrific sight.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, as he has done countless times in the past. The well-known comedian and, well . . . egg guy, was sitting as per his daily routine.

That was when the unthinkable happened.

It seems Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Paramedics from the King Ambulance Service (the first in the region to employ horses) were rushed to the scene only to discover a sight that made the most experienced veteran turn pale.

"There were little pieces of shell everywhere, along with his clothes," said Paramedic Lieutenant Wee Willie Winkle, now recovering nicely from his sleep disorder. "The worst part was that Humpty was still alive! Good god HE WAS STILL ALIVE! His yolk and albumen were splattered all over the place! GOD IT WAS AWFUL!"

Despite their best efforts, all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again.

The giant egg-man-thing is survived by his wife, Bernice, 37, and two children, Omelet and Benedict.

A memorial service will be held at Denny's tomorrow morning, just in time for Grand Slams and Moons Over My Hammy! Slide43

Analogy

Is defined as a comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics. By comparing a complex issue or situation with a more familiar one, cartoonists can help their readers see it in a different light.Slide44

Write a short definition for each of the following.

Persuasion____________________________

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Propaganda _____________________________________

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Alan Forkum explains his cartoon (above): ”Anti-war

protesters often use the death of innocent victims in

foreign countries to condemn American military intervention.

Yet if the prevention of innocent deaths is

one of the protesters' main concerns, why isn't any

significance given to the deaths of innocent

Americans? “Slide46

Taking a stand:

Persuasion requires that

you have an opinion and

want others to share it.Slide47

Visual Allegory

Allegory is defined as “a story or visual image

with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning.”Slide48
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