Question

English satire help??? *will medal*

What humor devices are used in this burlesque? show evidence in the text.

Sarah Booth was a great sculptor, widely known throughout the town as the very best. Every night at 2am she got to work pouring all her heart into the product. One night she let her heart pour into it, all the town gathered around to see the result. A doctor soon decided that no one else should see her art work. He laid her down into a snug bed. A bed so comfortable she never got out of it again.
HUMOR DEVICES:
wit
situational irony
verbal irony
parody
caricature

Answer 1

This reminds me of the sort of thing that Bette Midler might do with one of the characters she invented.

Seems to be poking fun at the idea that "great" artists (whatever that means) have suffer for their art.
So, B does, passionately -pouring all her heart into the product (implying that it could make a mess of the product ?) - parody ? caricature ?
SB was "great" - who said so ? A town ? how big was the town. - wit ?
The doctor bits seems to allude to a medical problem that B had (losing her metaphorical heart ?)
So he puts her to bed ... her death bed ? situational irony ?
It could also be seen, perhaps, as black/grey humour ?

Answer 2

@IrishBoy123

Answer 3

really poor prose, i'd say. and there is nothing funny about this, part from the fact she does her work in the wee hours. fraid i find it hard to give an opinion.

Answer 4

@IrishBoy123 sorry to tag you ...

Answer 5

lol!!

it just reminds me of canned laughter TV comedy. tell me where to find the humour. strangulate the dialogue to the point where's its funny but totally unfunny. kinda stuff :)

Answer 6

Well, I guess that any humour really centres around the interpretation of the heart metaphor. There may even be a touch of the "Van Gogh syndrome" in there ?
Burlesqe/slapstick ???

I sort of get the impression that that's part of the "bo boom" of Burlesque. the piece reminds me of Bette Midler's stuff, it also reminds me of the sequences in the film "Cabaret", and of a war weary song I read once in a music book about a bloke called "ben battle". Seems a cannon ball shot off his legs (Napoleonic wars ?) so he lay down his arms. Bleak stuff ....

Answer 7

there's unquestionably an Anglo Saxon side to humour. I think the Oirish overlap is very very significant. But Swiss humour ?!?!

I've been to a Swiss wedding. C'mon !! it was not funny :((

Answer 8

i guess it's in the eye of ... ?
i think that i'm the only person in the universe who is allergic to Monty Python ... eye of ? I met an Oirish bloke once who told some very funny, very dry jokes/stories, one being about the dictionary ...