I need help. I have to write a Satire (like the book Animal Farm) for Englsh and I dont know what to write abt

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I dont know how to write a satire...so if you know...HELP PLEASE

Answer 1

Many people get that assignment in high school and/or college. I personally always found that my writing was much better when I picked a situation that bothered or annoyed me and then wrote a satire about that.
One of the things that makes writing, especially in something like a satire, good is the voice the writer uses. It is often something that writers have to work hard to develop but the more strong feelings you have on a subject the easier that voice will come to you. Hence writing about something that evokes strong emotions in you, such as the things that bother or annoy you.

Good luck with your assignment.

Answer 2

The main purpose behind satire is criticism. So if you're looking for a subject for your satire, just think of something you do not like. Now don't tell me there's nothing you don't like! Someone probably could make a satire about just about anything - a school dress code, politics, religion, or even just what someone said yesterday.

Beyond that, satire is almost like exaggerated sarcasm. The point (as I mention above) is to criticize something, but you're not going to do this overtly. Instead, you may exaggerate faults, show how unworkable or inappropriate it is, or completely pretend to agree with the policy but doing so in such a way that you look like a complete fool.

A really good example is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This was invented by a fellow who disliked a school district's proposed plan of teaching creationism in school. Instead of arguing outright with the policy-makers, Bobby Henderson pretended to agree with them wholly and then add that he thought his completely fictitious and completely ridiculous pseudo-ideas should ALSO be taught in school. Link 2 had all the satirical details.

Hope that helps! Have fun with the project, that's part of what satire is about!

Answer 3

How To Write A Satire

Answer 4

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I need help. I have to write a Satire (like the book Animal Farm) for Englsh and I dont know what to write abt
I dont know how to write a satire...so if you know...HELP PLEASE

Answer 5

Check out this website - www.theonion.com. The Onion is a satirical newspaper. Find a topic that interests you-something that you think is a little ridiculous and then write about it satirically, which means to "use irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc."

Good luck.

Answer 6

Good sites to study from:
http://www.nottheonion.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061115192044AAj0Fap

From http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/26/125146.php:

Satire: How to Write Good

The first thing you should do is always use the male personal pronoun. In other words, instead of saying, "This is advice for anyone who wants to improve his or her writing skills, just say "...his writing skills." Aside from avoiding the clumsy "his or her" construction, there are some women (mainly ones with hyphenated last names) who will be irritated by it, and that alone makes it worthwhile. Also, don't worry about subject-verb number agreement. It's perfectly okay to say "...anyone who wants to improve their writing skills," because such usage is evidence that the writer was not really thinking about what he was writing, and too much thinking while writing is never a good
thing, as anyone who reads newspaper op-ed pages must realize.

Many people seem to have trouble with punctuation. The most misused punctuation mark, by far, is the apostrophe. My advice is to use the apostrophe indiscriminately, just as everyone else seems to do. If a word ends in "s" and you're not sure whether to use an apostrophe or not, go ahead and throw one in. This is especially true of the word "its." At last count there were only about ten people on earth who know the difference between "it's" and "its." Why worry about it?

The aspiring writer should never allow himself to be intimidated by big words. While at one time it was considered good form to use a dictionary and look up the meaning of a big word before using it, these days meaning is less important than the sheer mass of verbiage that you use. Thus you can refer to an ordinary abbreviation or initialization such as "YMCA" as an "acronym," even though it is not an acronym and has never been an acronym. You would have no way of knowing that, though, unless you looked it up, and who has time for that?

In my local newspaper a few years ago, on the occasion of the opening of a new factory, a story was published about the grand opening festivities, which, according to the piece, included a "train that circumvents the warehouse." While it may be that the train actually did avoid or elude the warehouse by way of a loophole, I doubt it, but what does it matter? The writer knew what he meant.

Contractions (like "it's") are another bit of sand in the ointment of good writing. Take my word for it, though, no one cares whether you say "your" or "you're." The sentence "Your not using you're head" makes perfect sense to ninety percent of the population, so why bother trying to figure out which is correct?

Likewise, don't worry about homophones. In the past few weeks in different publications I've seen instances of reporters writing about being in dire "straights" and having one's curiosity "peaked." Take a tip from the professionals: do your best to spell the word phonetically and get on with your life.

One of the main reasons that no one cares about how to write good anymore is that we now communicate a great deal via written messages on the internet, and because many people who use the internet can neither type nor spell, written communication has reverted to a language of abbreviations, hieroglyphics and the modern-day equivalent of cave painting. They use sideways pictures called "emoticons" such as {;>) which is supposed to represent a person smiling and winking. They don't say that something is funny, they say "LOL" or "ROTFLMAO" (laugh out loud; rolling on the floor laughing my *** off). They also often refuse to use upper case letters--or use upper case exclusively--and punctuation of any kind, and call each other by weird names:

hey blamo ufabno (woo gitty) down by mr stankys lol--pigmeats gonna be their to
The result is that you have to read a message about 12 times in order to at least partially figure out what the sender was trying to say. It's no wonder that people who spend hours every day communicating like this have trouble with formal English, imho.

So don't let the fact that you know nothing about grammar, spelling and punctuation make you think that you can't write good. The only rule left is that you should start at the beginning and make your way to the end by way of the middle, and if you apply yourself, the first thing you know yule be writing more better than myself. (LOL)

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Answer 7

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