Which example would most likely be considered satirical? A. On a television show, when a police officer shows a photo to a man accused of burglary, the man quickly replies, "That's not me!" B. In a play, the characters are costumed in outlandish clothes to portray style and wealth, but their exaggerated attire just reveals their foolishness. C. In a comic book, the character Shandra criticizes a specific clothing store while wearing a T-shirt printed with the store's logo. D. A poster in the teacher's lounge shows a student placing an apple on his teacher's desk and telling her he doesn't want her to get sick.

Satire is used to ridicule and mock people using irony and exaggeration.
I would guess that the answer would be B since the characters are portrayed as foolish. C could have been it, but in that case it is irony, not satire.
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michell96 michell96 · Answer 2 · 2019-05-10T19:49:43+02:00

The correct answer is B. In a play, the characters are costumed in outlandish clothes to portray style and wealth, but their exaggerated attire just reveals their foolishness.

Explanation:

Satire refers to a genre of literature which is used in other fields including arts whose main purpose is to criticize negative aspects of the society or the individuals by using humor and exaggeration which creates social criticism of individual and society vices, abuses or flaws. This means when a material is satirical is because it aims at criticizing negative aspects and for doing this it uses exaggeration and mockery that made the audience or reader reflect about how negative these aspects are. Considering this, the example that would most likely be considered satirical is "In a play, the characters are costumed in outlandish clothes to portray style and wealth, but their exaggerated attire just reveals their foolishness" because in this example the main goal is to show negative aspects of society (foolishness of wealthy people) or create a social critique by using exaggeration and humor, which is exactly the purpose of satire.