English, 01.08.2019 19:00, Roro7522

Which of these are examples of satire? check all that apply. a magazine article exaggerating the public’s extreme reaction to a celebrity a funny political cartoon exposing the flaws in a new government policy a news report objectively describing a recent event an ironic short story that draws attention to how unmotivated people can be a scientific report analyzing pollution data a encyclopedia entry about a complex mathematical procedure

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The correct answers are A. A magazine article exaggerating the public’s extreme reaction to a celebrity, B. A funny political cartoon exposing the flaws in a new government policy, and D. An ironic short story that draws attention to how unmotivated people can be

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The purpose of satire is to criticize negative aspects of individuals, society or government, for this, satire does not use literal language but relies on irony, humor or exaggeration that show indirectly the absurdity of some behaviors and actions. This also implies texts that use literal language and do not focus on criticizing society are not satirical.

According to this, from the options provided the texts that are example of satire are "A magazine article exaggerating the public’s extreme reaction to a celebrity" because this uses exaggeration to show a negative aspect of people and create a critique; "A funny political cartoon exposing the flaws in a new government policy" because this exposes the flaws of government through humor; and "An ironic short story that draws attention to how unmotivated people can be" because as other examples this focuses on showing flaws or vices by using humor.

answered: makoa

Satire is a literary technique that is used to ridicule someone using humor or sarcasm.

A writer can make use of::

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in order to express satire.

Therefore,the following are examples of satire:

A magazine article exaggerating the public’s extreme reaction to a celebrityA funny political cartoon exposing the flaws in a new government policy, and An ironic short story that draws attention to how unmotivated people can be

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