Part 1
In the space below, include your original satire that uses at least two humor devices to achieve its goal. Note the following requirements for each option:

Article: minimum of 225 words
Cartoon: minimum of 2 cartoons
Script for skit: minimum of 225 words
Meme: minimum of 2 memes based on issues from real events within the last week
Other option: consult your instructor

Part 2
Using complete sentences, answer the following questions based on your satire.

Topic and Purpose:
What human weakness or institution did you satirize?
Why did you choose this subject as the target for your satire?
What do you want your audience to think or do after reading or seeing your satire?

Identification and Analysis:
List at least two humor devices or techniques you used. For each device, include what is stated and what is meant.
What is the tone of the satire and how do the humor devices you used affect it?
Explain how each example illuminates the weakness or problem in the target of your satire.

Evaluation:
If the topic of your satire were presented as a written argument with research and proof, would it be more or less effective than your satire? In 3—4 complete sentences, explain why one form or the other would be better at illuminating the problem.

Read the excerpt from “the railroad earth.” o well anyway i'll be learning eventually to like the railroad and sherman will like me some day, and anyway another day another dollar. the narrator of this excerpt can best be described as friendly.optimistic.wealthy.intelligent.

Which statements describe the last two lines of a shakespearean sonnet? select three options.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.