#58 Journal 12/2
• Synthesize: after reading “Working With Your
Hands,” “Serving in Florida,” and “Dumpster Diving,”
write a response explaining what the authors would
agree on and where they might disagree. Reference
specific information from the texts.
• Please have rhetorical triangle from “Dumpster
Diving” out and open on your desk.
• We will do Multiple Choice Practice tomorrow. 
Heart of Darkness Reading Schedule
• Read through Chapter 1 (27) by Dec. 5. Will be
on quiz (Seminar)
• Read through Chapter 2 (50) by Friday 12/12
(Seminar)
• Finish book by Friday 12/19 (Seminar)
– Major Works Folder due 1/9
Dumpster Diving page 431
• Small groups discuss questions- 1,5, 6, 9, 11,
or 12
#59 Satire & Irony
• Irony- contradiction or incongruity between
appearance or expectation and reality.
• Discrepancy between:
– What one says and what one means (verbal)
• Not the same as sarcasm, though related
– Expectation and what happens (situational)
– What appears to be true and what is actually true
• A device or mode
#59 Satire & Irony
• Satire- a genre, not a device or mode
• Irony, sarcasm, wit, parody are used to expose
human weakness, and to create reform
through ridicule.
• Not just comedy- makes a moral point
• Parody- comic imitation of the style of an
author, character, genre.
• Read Heart of Darkness
• Current Event- theonion.com