Imagine Cervantes, Voltaire or Pope writing a parody today. Select some form of written communication that you image he would relish lampooning, and then write a parody of your own. You many choose from such forms of writing as the memoir, the business memo, the advice-column letter, the political-campaign speech, or a Facebook page entry. Before you begin writing your parody, decide what the target of your satire will be. Then, use the literary devices--exaggeration, verbal irony, incongruity, humorous imitation--to write a parody of your own. 200 words.
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Vlad K
12/1/2014 06:25:09 pm
Today was just like any other day. I wake up, take my shower, eat my breakfast, and go to school. Nothing new, yet something felt off. But I didn’t know what. It was nagging at me so much. I tried ignoring it, but yet that uncomfortable feeling was still there. I’m a man of purple skin and green hair, I was the only one. I get to school, expecting to be called Grape, Oompa Lumpa, grape juice, names like that. None of that happened, everyone looked at me strangely, I was so confused. I look down at my hands and notice it at last, I’m normal skin color now, I go to the bathroom and look at my face, blue eyes, brown hair, and normal skin. I open my mouth and see white teeth, not red teeth. I walk back outside and some guys start calling me cracker, wonder bread, paper, vanilla ice, names like that. I hate going to a black school, everyone’s so racist.
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Jesse T
12/2/2014 04:25:43 am
Facebook
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Brandon F
12/3/2014 09:58:32 pm
Spider-Pig
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Darel M
12/8/2014 04:05:42 am
Grand Jury Releases Decision
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Sarah
12/9/2014 04:42:39 pm
A memoir-
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#FearTheBeard
12/9/2014 09:27:37 pm
You cannot hide your true feelings no matter how hard you try. You cannot be someone and turn around and have a different way to act for certain people. A person should act how they really feel. Everyone has their own way of portraying their emotions and there’s a way they can tell a difference in their personality after getting to know them. You then gain a deeper meaning about them; some call it like a second layer, what we really think as opposed to what we really see. Everyone is what they seem, simple to understand, everyone seems to be honest with others and not the opposite.
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Maurie
12/14/2014 05:51:16 am
Advice Column
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Tatiana
12/15/2014 05:50:04 pm
News Channel 5 Nightly News
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Gizem B
1/11/2015 02:04:23 am
The political-campaign speech
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