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aCTIVITy 4.6
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Second Read
• Reread the article to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
2. Craft and Structure: What role does the first paragraph play in the structure of this article?
3. Key Ideas and Details: How do quotes from specific people throughout the article add to the development of ideas?
4. Key Ideas and Details: How does the use of present tense in the last quote in paragraph 13 emphasize the satire?
Working from the Text
5. Work collaboratively to diffuse and paraphrase the definition of satire.
Satire, a form of high comedy, is the use of irony, sarcasm, and/or ridicule in exposing, denouncing, and/or deriding human vice and folly.
my Notes
Paraphrase:
Unit 4 • The Challenge of Comedy 279
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