Create Your Own Satire

For this part of the assignment, you will appropriate Twain's technique and write a burlesque of an event in your life or in the life of a celebrity. Remember, a burlesque plays on contradiction between a subject and the way it is treated. Twain used humor to describe serious, sometimes awful, events, but you can turn it around and present something fun or happy in a very serious way - the choice is yours.

Requirements:

Incorporate at least two humor devices

Write a minimum of five sentences

Paste your completed burlesque here:

After you have written your burlesque, answer these reflection questions in complete sentences:

Factually describe the event you wrote about in your burlesque.

What humor devices did you incorporate? Why did you choose them?